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From: gordon@sneaky
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Cutting back newsgroups
Message-ID: <-1025368@sneaky>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 14:14:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 14:14:00 1985
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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
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