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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Is there a limit to length of exclusion list?
Message-ID: <449@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:07:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:07:20 1985
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Organization: Time Inc. (Edit Tech), New York
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One of the sites that we feed has recently given us a VERY
lengthy exclusion list for our sys file.  Before I break
something, could one of you news.gurus let me know if
there is a limit as to how long (in bytes, or in newgroup count)
a sys entry is allowed to be?

(The list is long enough to cause vi to barf on a 'Line too Long'
 error message).

Thanks.


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