michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) (08/13/90)
Sorry if this has been asked before... Our feed site sends us some groups we don't want to keep on disk. For various reasons, we cannot stop them from sending us those groups. Rather than expiring those groups quickly, I tried to exclude them in the sys file entry for our site, e.g.: ptcburp:world,!soc:: The articles for soc now all end up in junk, where they still consume disk space. Does anyone know how to convince news to throw them into the bit bucket, rather than moving all these articles into junk ? Michi.
jgabriel@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Juan Gabriel Ruiz Pinto) (08/17/90)
>>>>> On 13 Aug 90 06:08:41 GMT, michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) said: > Sorry if this has been asked before... > Our feed site sends us some groups we don't want to keep on disk. For various > reasons, we cannot stop them from sending us those groups. An option is that you tell your news feed just send the groups you want, the news administrator at your news feed can add in his sys file, the negations of the groups you don't want, i.e. !soc, etc.. Hope this helps... -- ***** Greetings from Mexico! ***** Juan Gabriel Ruiz Pinto Internet: Ing. Sistemas Electronicos jgabriel@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey
darryl@lemuria.MV.COM (Darryl Wagoner) (08/22/90)
In article <JGABRIEL.90Aug16174808@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> jgabriel@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Juan Gabriel Ruiz Pinto) writes: >>>>>> On 13 Aug 90 06:08:41 GMT, michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) said: > >> Our feed site sends us some groups we don't want to keep on disk. For various >> reasons, we cannot stop them from sending us those groups. > > An option is that you tell your news feed just send the > groups you want, the news administrator at your news feed > can add in his sys file, the negations of the groups you This could lead to very large sys entries, which can cause problems. Plus you have to bug your feeder admin to change it any time that you want to add or delete a group. On Cnews, and I beleive on B news, you can change the forth field of the active file to 'x' and it will discard that group. I just found out about it myself when I upgraded to Cnews. Good luck! -- Darryl Wagoner darryl@lemuria.MV.COM or uunet!virgin!lemuria!darryl 12 Oak Hill Road Brookline, NH 03033 Office: 603.672.0736 Home: 603.673.0578
brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (08/23/90)
The simpler system is to use my dynamic feeder. I have been running it as the main feed for my own site, as well as the outgoing feeder for 3 ClariNet sites, for some time now and it seems to be working. So it's time for beta test? To test you need a cooperative feed site and (one assumes) the cooperation of the recipient. Of course, in many cases insitagation of the use of this program would come from the recipient, so in practice you need both. I will leave a preliminary distribution on uunet for ftp shortly, and will post here about it. It has certainly cut down my disk space needs and transmission times. It is nice to see 'junk' almost empty, except for postings in very new groups that I haven't bothered to create. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473