Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bbn!oliveb!amdahl!dlb!dave From: dave@dlb.uucp (Dave Buck) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: C News: use of = in active Message-ID: <1989Aug16.152943.26381@dlb.uucp> Date: 16 Aug 89 15:29:43 GMT Organization: D.L.Buck&Assoc.;San Jose,Calif. USA Lines: 22 In the Bay Area, we have three similar news groups: ba.wanted, ba.market, and ba.forsale. Bozos here frequently post "For Sale: Twin-sized WaterBed" articles to all of these, plus ba.general, to get the best possible coverage. While I'm annoyed at the ba.general crosspostings, there doesn't seem to be much I can do to filter these out. However, it does seem that I can locally combine ba.wanted, ba.market, and ba.forsale into one single group, ba.market. Looking at the C News documentation, it appeared to me that this form of aliasing was handled by having the last field in the active file for ba.wanted and ba.forsale be "=ba.market". Sure enough, nothing now falls into ba.wanted or ba.forsale. That's the good news. The bad news is that an article posted into ba.wanted and ba.market winds up as two separate articles in ba.market, ba/market/6994 and ba/market/6995. The Xref header lists ba.market:6994 and ba.market:6995. I suppose this must've been the intention, but I don't like the results. Is there a better way? -- Dave Buck {amdahl,sun,megatest,plx,ardent,ubvax}!dlb!dave D. L. Buck and Associates, Inc.; San Jose, California 95119; (408)972-2825