Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!dual!fair From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: duplicate lines in active Message-ID: <322@dual.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 03:05:54 EST Article-I.D.: dual.322 Posted: Thu Mar 1 03:05:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 13:34:39 EST References: <177@cbnap.UUCP> <267@whuxle.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 12 In fact, the effect that Mark Plotnik describes only happens when the USENET software is compiled with the `AUTONEWNG' define turned on. Otherwise, articles in unrecognized groups go in a newsgroup called `junk' where they rot until expiration. Junk is one of a couple of groups that you must explicitly ask for in your options line, if you really want to read that kind of stuff. Erik E. Fair dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California