From: mcdonald@dallas.sil.org
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: How to restrict news from mail feed?
Date: 7 Nov 92 13:26:12 CST
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center

In article <1992Nov6.085505.44459@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:
> In article <1992Nov5.082321.40@dallas.sil.org>, mcdonald@dallas.sil.org writes:
>> Running ANU-NEWS 6.1 (distributed with DECUS UUCP 2.0)  under VMS 5.5-1...
>> I'm currently getting a small feed by mail in addition to my usual uucp
>> feeds.   My mail feed is starting to send a few rogue messages that my uucp
>> feed does not want.  How can I restrict those messages locally?
> 
> It would help a lot if we knew what the feed site was that was sending
> the "rogue" messages, and something about why you don't want them. 

For a little while acuvax was mailing me random postings from NEWS... and
COMP...  These were getting forwarded to lerami, who explicitly told me he
didn't want anything like that coming from this direction - he has a
well-filtered system feeding him what he wants.

> In general, if you are getting articles that you don't want, talk to
> the news manager at the system that is sending them and ask him/her to
> stop.

I did and he did, but accidents happen, so I wanted to be certain that
another accident wouldn't mess up lerami again.

>> # supposed to just feed me SNET via mail, but occasionally sends other
>> # groups...
>> acuvax.acu.edu:/me\
>> snet,to.sil\
>> local,junk,control,general\
>> :BN:NEWS_MANAGER_DEV/[POST_MAIL_ACUVAX]NEWS.BATCH^B
> 
> What is the /me entry in the above supposed to do? It isn't any legal
> construct that I am aware of.

I guess my main confusion was the new syntax, since I couldn't find any
examples (just a few random discussions).  I was thinking that it was
analogous to the old NEWS.DISTIRBUTIONS file, ie: send any postings *from*
this source on to this list, but instead it is the inverse - don't pass
messages *to* this site if they came through somewhere on this list.  After
Robert Eden (robert@cpvax.lonestar.org) called me up and patiently
explained it to me (thanks Robert!) I was able to get it cleaned up and
working much better.

>> txsil/fallout.lonestar.org:\
>> to,comp,news,rec,soc,sci,\
>> !alt,!snet,\
>> !alt.sex,!alt.sex.bondage,!alt.sex.bestiality,\
>> local,junk,control,general\
>> :B:NEWS_MANAGER_DEV/[POST_UUCP$CMPRS_TXSIL]NEWS.BATCH^B:world,na,usa,tx,dfw
> 
> You probably don't want to feed to.sil articles to txsil.

Actually, sending to.sil to txsil makes all sorts of sense, since txSIL is
as much SIL as dalSIL is...

>                                                            Since you
> don't carry alt, whay all the exclusions of alt groups?

That is what I normally refer to as "entropy".  I've cleaned it out now.

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