mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) (12/01/90)
Let me start by thanking the many who mailed answers to the distribution/heirarchy problem. This one looks to be a tougher nut to crack. Gene Spafford puts out two checkgroups messages. One for sites that aren't on the internet, and another for sites that are. This second list includes groups that are gatewayed to high-volume mailing lists, or are inappropriate to non-internet sites. So we have site a on the internet feeding site b who doesn't want the inet groups. The way it is now, site B is simply dumping into junk all of the traffic in these groups. Is there an easy way to fix this situation so that a won't feed this stuff besides, of course, including a "!" entry for each group in question in /lib/news/sys on a? IMHO, the traffic in these groups would do well to have distributions of "inet" or be placed in a separate "inet" heirarchy, but it's probably not worth the effort, I suppose. -- Nick Sayer | Disclaimer: "Don't try this at home, | RIP: Mel Blanc mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | kids. This should only be done by | 1908-1989 N6QQQ [44.2.1.17] | trained, professional idiots." | May he never 209-952-5347 (Telebit) | --Plucky Duck | be silenced.