res@colnet.uucp (Rob Stampfli) (05/28/91)
With all the talk about cnews zapping articles with bad dates, I have noticed more than a few articles posted to non-existant newsgroups come thru and wind up in my junk directory (perhaps someone types rec.amateur.radio instead of rec.radio.amateur). Nobody seems to be concerned about these bogus groups. I can only assume that the upstream sites, like me, specify "all/!local" or something like this when feeding their sites. Now I wonder: if everyone used something like "all,!junk/!local", will it have the desired effect, or will it only affect articles explicitly posted to "Newgroup: junk"? (I know, I could read the code, or do a test, but with all the expertise on the net, surely someone can save me the time.) -- Rob Stampfli, 614-864-9377, res@kd8wk.uucp (osu-cis!kd8wk!res), kd8wk@n8jyv.oh
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (05/28/91)
In article <1991May28.034106.17707@colnet.uucp> res@colnet.uucp (Rob Stampfli) writes: >I can only assume that the upstream sites, like me, specify "all/!local" or >something like this when feeding their sites. Now I wonder: if everyone used >something like "all,!junk/!local", will it have the desired effect... No. The sys-file matching is done by what the article headers say, not by where the article gets filed on your system. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry