Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: junk ->/dev/null Message-ID: <61@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 23 Mar 89 03:52:14 GMT References: <1075@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <7050@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <45@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1087@bnlux0.bnl.gov> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Distribution: na Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: abrams@max.arpa (The Ancient Programmer) In article <1087@bnlux0.bnl.gov>, abrams@max (The Ancient Programmer) writes: > 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.;-) I suggest you tell your feeds to put a !wny and !buf if their sys file for your machine. Why should you pay for unwanted junk mail that someone insists on sending you? -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!steinmetz!barnett,