news@m2xenix.UUCP ( randy) (10/30/88)
I admin a small system with a selective newsfeed. E.g. I want to receive
comp.lang.modula2 but not comp.lang.pascal. Unfortunately, it seems that when
someone out there in netland posts a message to both groups, I store two copies
of the message. rn is kind and only shows one, but the directory is there for
the unsubscribed group and it has the message in it. As I run a looong expire,
this eats disk.
As I subscribe to a limited selection of groups, having !comp.lang.pascal (and
zillions of other groups) in my /usr/lib/news/sys seems like a neverending
maintenance task. I am sure there's a normal accepted practice to accomplish
this (or better yet, I have misunderstood something somewhere), so please let
me in on the secret.
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Randy Bush {..!mcvax!uunet,..!tektronix,..!sun!nosun}!oresoft!m2xenix!news