[news.software.b] Exclusions in `sys' file not working

kenc@suntan.viewlogic.com (Kenstir) (05/13/91)

Cnews, patch level 24-Mar-1991, NNTP 1.5.11, sun 3-80, sunOS 4.1.

I'm trying to exclude certain groups from making it to my
site via the `sys' file.  According to news(5), I can edit
the ME entry to have "alt,!alt.sex.self", as in

        ME:comp,misc,news,rec,sci,soc,alt,!alt.sex.self,gnu,ne,\
        to,/alt,ba,ca,inet,gnu,na,usa,world

Articles are still showing up in "alt.sex.self".  I realize that
a MISmatch on alt.sex.self would not prevent a match on alt.sex.self.public.
Do I need to edit the active file to disable (x) newsgroups I don't want?

I would appreciate any pointers I could get in tracking down
how do make this work properly.

-- 
Kenneth H. Cox
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
kenc@viewlogic.com
..!{harvard,husc6}!viewlogic.com!kenc

geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) (05/15/91)

kenc@suntan.viewlogic.com (Kenstir) writes:
>        ME:comp,misc,news,rec,sci,soc,alt,!alt.sex.self,gnu,ne,\
>        to,/alt,ba,ca,inet,gnu,na,usa,world

I suspect that you don't want that trailing comma in the newsgroups
pattern.  Try this instead:

	ME:comp,misc,news,rec,sci,soc,alt,!alt.sex.self,gnu,ne,to/\
	alt,ba,ca,inet,gnu,na,usa,world
-- 
Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff