Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!prlbcom!kulcs!kulesat!esat!elsen From: elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Message-ID: <2030.258b618e@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Date: 17 Dec 89 09:51:10 GMT References: Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,ESAT - dep. Elect. Engineering, Belgium Lines: 64 In article , TLIMONCE@DRUNIVAC.BITNET (Tom Limoncelli @ Drew University) writes: > Yea! > > Bum da ta bum! Aaaaaaanouncing: > > Drew University is finally on Usenet! > > Our map entry was accepted and will be hitting comp.mail.maps quite > soon. We are drew.uucp. > > We are running VMS 5.2, ANU NEWS 5.9B, DECUS UUCP latest version. > > We've been running NEWS locally here for over a year, and I've become > sort of an expert. Alas, now that we're getting a full newsfeed from > Rutgers, I have become a beginner again. > > Questions: > > I don't want to CREATE NEWSGROUP for every newsgroup that exists. > I am accepting newsgroups with ADD FILE/CREGRP but I'm getting a lot > of bogus newsgroups (mostly local groups for other sites due to > cross-posting.). That is, someone posts to misc.forsale,ba.forsale > and it creates a ba.forsale newsgroup... and we're no where near the > Bay Area. > > How does one deal with this? I have been adding "!ba" to my news.sys > file but they still get created. Do I have to reboot between > modifications to news.sys 1/2 :-) ? This has been discussed before , Geoff responded then that /CREGRP isn't the best way to create groups and that CHECKGROUP messages should be used. This is probably true but I still feel, and this doesn't take away my great respect for NEWS, that /CREGRP should be compliant with the current NEWS.SYS file... > > -Tom > P.S. Who manages the ANUNEWS listserv on the Bitnet side? Could you > contact me? > --- > Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net > Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 > :) Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University > (: "DEC's All-In-1 isn't completely useless, but it's a nice attempt." > Domain coming soon: Drew.Edu -- Marc Elsen (System Manager/Software Engineer) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Dep. E.S.A.T. Kard. Mercierlaan 94 3030 HEVERLEE Belgium tel. 32(0)16220931(ext. 1080) EMAIL : elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be ...!kulcs!kulesat!elsen (UUCP) elsen%kulesat.uucp@blekul60 (BITNET) psi%02062166012::elsen (PSI MAIL)