abrams@cass.amd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (09/09/89)
I am trying to exclude whole groups, i.e. !ba.* !ca.* etc. but my feeding site still ships me those groups and they fill up my junk directory. I asked that my feeding site News Administrator put !ba.*,!ca.*, etc into my sys file entry on his site, and he stated the following: | We're not spooling news for you folks anymore - you're using |NNTP. NNTP allows you, via judicious editing of the nntp.oursite.edu |file to control what groups you take from us. To stop the flow of |ca, mit, etc you have a line that looks like: | | !ca.*,!mit.*,!buf.*, etc etc Looking at the file /usr/spool/batch/nntp.his_site.edu shows me a list of articles bound for his site. Editing that file as suggested causes NNTP to barf. Is there another file which will prevent me from asking for unwanted newsgroups when I execute run.nntpxfer to get news from his site? INTERNET: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams
skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) (09/09/89)
In article <1470@bnlux0.bnl.gov>, abrams@cass.amd.bnl.gov wrote: >Looking at the file /usr/spool/batch/nntp.his_site.edu shows me a list ^^^^^ >of articles bound for his site. ... Is there another file which will >prevent me from asking for unwanted newsgroups when I execute run.nntpxfer >to get news from his site? Yes, it's in the news spool directory, usually /usr/spool/news. It's name is "nntp.REMOTE", where "REMOTE" is the name of the site you nntpxfer from. ...Sam -- Samuel Lam <skl@wimsey.bc.ca> or {uunet,ubc-cs}!wimsey.bc.ca!skl