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From: abrams@max.arpa (The Ancient Programmer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: junk ->/dev/null
Message-ID: <1087@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: 21 Mar 89 18:22:58 GMT
References: <1075@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <7050@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <45@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <45@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:
>In article <1075@bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams@bnlux0.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer) wr
>>ites:
>>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
                                (^^^^^^^^^^^^^^you bet)
>articles you do want and they are not going to the right place.
>
>You can either fix your sys file, or create the newsgroups, right?
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Point well taken, however these junked articles are in newsgroups which
are in my sys file with the ! preceding them. I assume that's why they are
being junked.  Many are for distributions such as wny(west new york?), or 
buf(buffalo?) and others.  They are apparently leaking all over my junk 
directory.;-)



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