Known bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Wed Aug 25 02:22:14 UTC 1999


Quoting Katsuhiro Kondou (kondou at nec.co.jp):
> In article <19990824151826.B16564 at xcski.com>,
> 	Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> wrote;
> } > 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.
> 
> You can control it with incoming.conf.  Put 'patterns: ...' in it.

Ah good.  Because the previous method, just removing the group, didn't do much
if you had keeptrash (or whatever it's called).


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