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From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: junk ->/dev/null
Message-ID: <45@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 15 Mar 89 11:11:53 GMT
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In article <1075@bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams@bnlux0.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer) wr
>ites:
>	I'm news administrator at a site with limited disk space, and
>I would like to know if there are good reasons for not making the junk
>directory a link to /dev/null.  Will this have any other repercussions
>besides loosing all of the junked articles?

I have always felt that if I got articles in the junk directory, then
something was wrong and should be fixed.

Either you are getting articles you don't want, or you are getting
articles yo do want and they are not going to the right place.

You can either fix your sys file, or create the newsgroups, right?

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	Bruce G. Barnett 	barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.ge.com
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