Known bug, or am I doing something wrong?

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu):
>     The ME entry tends to confuse a lot of people, so this point is worth
>     repeating:  The newsgroup patterns set the default subscription for
>     *outgoing* feeds, and the distribution patterns set the acceptable
>     Distribution: header entries for *incoming* articles.  This is confusing
>     enough that it may change in later versions of INN.
> 
> You can't control what newsgroups you accept by using newsfeeds.

That's much, much clearer than the man page.  The first eleventy billion 
times I read the man page it didn't sink in, because that very important point
was made as a parenthetical aside.

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