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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: How do YOU accept a newsfeed?
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Date: 19 Dec 89 21:43:12 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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>If someone crossposts to misc.forsale,ba.forsale and this is my first
>line in NEWS.SYS:
>
># first entry is this node, and is what will be accepted.
>drew:alt,bionet,biz,comp,control,junk,misc,news,nj,njin,ops,sci,soc,talk,\
>test,to,u3b,vmsnet,!aus,!ba,!ca,!can,!clari,!gnu,!local,!micro,\
>!purdue,!rec,!u3b,!unix-pc,!wpi::
>#
>
>and I add news batches like this: (from my modified NEWSSKIM_ALT.COM)
>
>$ NEWS/NOSCREEN ADD BATCH/CREGRP/DELETE 'temp_name'
>
>News creates both misc.forsale AND ba.forsale.
     
This has me beat - in newsutility do_newg calls sys_accept (or some similar
name) which should reject newsgroup ba.forsale and NOT create it - what version
are you running????
     
I cannot see in the code why this newsgroup should be created (and I can't
repeat the problem here) - but that means very little of course :-)
     
     
cheers,
Geoff Huston