root@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Bob Reineri) (08/21/89)
Could someone point me in the direction of a complete and thorough description
of the sys file entries for b news ? I have read the news docs, and, for me at
least, they assume too much knowledge. They refer to it as the same format as
a 'mailing list'. I have read through the discussion of the individual fields,
and understand it somewhat - tho I'm still not clear on exactly how to get the
groups I want.
From what I can gather, I should have *all* active groups in the active file,
whether I want them or not, and use the sys file to weed them out. Correct ?
Email would be great. Thanks for your help.
Bob
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Greetings,
I am having a problem keeping groups off of our system. The documentation
says that an entry of !group.blah.blah will cause news to refuse that group.
On our system, the news for that group is logged (log & errlog) and then put
into junk. This causes us to have a large errlog file and *many* extra
entries in the log file.
This is my sys file entry for me...
--------- Begin included file: sys ---------
ME:world,na,usa,usaf,dc,va,md,to.hq,!junk,\
alt,biz,comp,ddn,gnu,misc,news,pubnet,rec,sci,soc,talk,u3b,unix-pc,\
!alt.activism,!alt.aquaria,!alt.bbs,!alt.co-ops,!alt.config,!alt.cosuard,\
!alt.cult-movies,!alt.cyb-sys,!alt.cyberpunk,!alt.dev.null,!alt.drugs,\
!alt.emusic,!alt.fax,!alt.fishing,!alt.flame,!alt.gambling,!alt.gourmand,\
!alt.great-lakes,!alt.hypertext,!alt.individualism,!alt.msdos.programmer,\
!alt.postmodern,!alt.prose,!alt.prose.d,!alt.religion.computers,\
!alt.restaurants,!alt.rhode_island,!alt.rissa,!alt.rmgroup,!alt.rock-n-roll,\
!alt.romance,!alt.sca,!alt.sex,!alt.sex.bondage,!alt.slack,!alt.sources,\
!alt.sources.amiga,!alt.sources.d,!alt.test,!alt.weemba,\
!pubnet.sources,!pubnet.sysops ,!pubnet.talk,!pubnet.test,!pubnet.wanted,\
!rec.nude,\
!soc.couples,!soc.feminism,!soc.men,!soc.misc,!soc.motss,!soc.rights.human,\
!soc.roots,!soc.singles,!soc.women,\
!talk.abortion,!talk.bizarre,!talk.origins,!talk.philosophy.misc,\
!talk.rape,!talk.religion.misc,!talk.religion.newage
--------- End of Included file: sys ---------
Eventually when it is decided what groups we do and don't want, we will have
our feed _not_ send us these groups, but until then we would rather have a
full feed and weed it out ourselves through the sys file (if it would work).
Thanks, and ANY help will be greatly appreciated...
BTW: Is there anybody out there that has Bnews3.0 WORKING on a Sun? I like
some of the features and am considering going to it. I'd like to get
some input on this one.
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mitch@hq.af.mil
gretzky@unison.larc.nasa.govhenry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/19/89)
In article <MITCH.89Nov17134259@hq.af.mil> mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitchell..Wright) writes: >I am having a problem keeping groups off of our system. The documentation >says that an entry of !group.blah.blah will cause news to refuse that group. >On our system, the news for that group is logged (log & errlog) and then put >into junk. This causes us to have a large errlog file and *many* extra >entries in the log file. Fixed in C News. However, that probably isn't much help... -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu