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From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: news group automatic creation
Message-ID: <1RBTKJ#6m97Q4=eric@snark.uu.net>
Date: 21 Apr 89 02:41:46 GMT
References: <610@zardoz.uucp>
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In <610@zardoz.uucp> Neil Gorsuch wrote:
> Does anyone know how to convince B2.11 patchlevel 14 news software how to
> automatically create a news group when an article comes in that is not in
> the current "active" file?  Or if one of the new flavors of news coming
> out such as TMN supports this?

Indeed we do! Just set the FLEXGROUPS attribute on the subscription "all"
via a one-line change to TMN-netnews's `admin' file and you'll get the
behavior you want. Old flexgroups quietly disappear after a period of
inactivity.
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      Eric S. Raymond                     (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
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