Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site sneaky Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!sneaky!gordon From: gordon@sneaky Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Cutting back newsgroups Message-ID: <-1025368@sneaky> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 14:14:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sneaky.-1025368 Posted: Fri Jul 5 14:14:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 00:45:26 EDT References: <174@almsa-1> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:almsa-1:-17400:sneaky:-1025368:000:1099 Nf-From: sneaky!gordon Jul 5 13:14:00 1985 Yes, some documentation on how to limit newsgroups would definitely help the news distribution. Also, I keep hearing encouragements that if I don't like a particular group at my site, I should just pass it on to other sites but not keep the articles locally. This sounds like a reasonable idea, if I have the uucp spool space, (my connections are local calls) but how does one accomplish it? Under 2.10.2, a group I exclude from my system's sys line has all it's articles put in junk. This is just as bad as keeping the group. My reason for excluding groups is disk space, not net fascism, and if none of the users want the group, they would much rather have some more free disk space. Isn't there some way to allow an article to come in, and have no trace of it remain in my file system after the uucp queues have cleared? (except log and maybe history?) Running expire or just a mass clearing of "junk" from cron every half hour isn't acceptable. Gordon Burditt ...!convex!ctvax!trsvax!sneaky!gordon ...!microsoft!trsvax!sneaky!gordon ...!ihnp4!sys1!sneaky!gordon