curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) (03/24/91)
Cnews regularly sends me mail stating that gnu.misc.discuss is on the
"top ten list of unsubscribed newsgroups." I checked the log files
and it turns out that it is tossing any article posted to that group
unless it is crossposted to another newsgroup.
I looked though the docs but didn't find any mention of this problem.
What the heck is an "unsubscribed newsgroup" and how do I fix this?
On a completely unrelated note, for some reason rn keeps messing up my
signature. When I cat the article itself it looks ok, but when I read
it with rn extra spaces get added before the vertical bar (`|') and it
doesn't line up anymore (not to mention having the quote scroll onto
the next line and look generally ugly). I'm running version 4.3.2.11
(patchlevel 54) dated 91/01/04.
Thanks for your help.
cjs
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In article <1991Mar23.231126.4840@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) writes: >Cnews regularly sends me mail stating that gnu.misc.discuss is on the >"top ten list of unsubscribed newsgroups." I checked the log files >and it turns out that it is tossing any article posted to that group >unless it is crossposted to another newsgroup. > >I looked though the docs but didn't find any mention of this problem. >What the heck is an "unsubscribed newsgroup" and how do I fix this? See the discussion of "subscriptions" in man/news.5 for details; sounds like you didn't look through the docs very hard. :-) What's happening is that the ME line in your sys file says you don't want that group. -- "[Some people] positively *wish* to | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
root@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Super user) (03/27/91)
In article <1991Mar24.111417.2221@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >See the discussion of "subscriptions" in man/news.5 for details; sounds >like you didn't look through the docs very hard. :-) > >What's happening is that the ME line in your sys file says you don't >want that group. I have the same behavior here, using ME:all as my sys entry (it was suggested in the SCO cnews hint file sent from another XENIX newsadmin)... is the syntax incorrect? -- Public Access UUCP/UseNet (Waffle/XENIX 1.63) | kmcvay@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca| TB+: 604-753-9960 2400: 604-754-9964 | ..van-bc!oneb!kmcvay | FrontDoor 2.0/Maximus v1.02/Ufgate 1.03 | FidoNet 1:351/190.1 | HST 14.4: 604-754-2928 | IMEx 89:681/1 |
steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick) (03/29/91)
As quoted from <1991Mar24.111417.2221@zoo.toronto.edu> by henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer): +--------------- | In article <1991Mar23.231126.4840@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) writes: | >Cnews regularly sends me mail stating that gnu.misc.discuss is on the | >"top ten list of unsubscribed newsgroups.".... | | See the discussion of "subscriptions" in man/news.5 for details; sounds | like you didn't look through the docs very hard. :-) | | What's happening is that the ME line in your sys file says you don't | want that group. +--------------- Henry -- wouldn't this also exist if the < ~/active > file was lacking that particular "news group" in it?? -- Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the < XBBS > program at NCoast.ORG {uunet|backbone}!ncoast.org!nshore!steve nshore!steve@ncoast.org
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (03/30/91)
In article <1991Mar28.203501.1043@nshore.ncoast.org> steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick) writes: >| >Cnews regularly sends me mail stating that gnu.misc.discuss is on the >| >"top ten list of unsubscribed newsgroups.".... >| >| What's happening is that the ME line in your sys file says you don't >| want that group. > >Henry -- wouldn't this also exist if the < ~/active > file was lacking >that particular "news group" in it?? No, then it gets reported as "unknown", not "unsubscribed". -- "The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 are all true." -D. Harrison| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry