A question about unwnated newsgroups

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi all,

Our feed keeps sending us groups we don't want.  I get messages in the log files
about unwanted newsgroups.  Is the reason for these rejections because our
active file does not list these newsgroups, or because we have our innfeed
channel newsgroup wildmat pattern set up to "kill" these groups?

Also, it is clear that we are getting groups that are not in the canonical
active file that can be obtained from ICS's ftp server.  Is it is reasonable
assumption that our feed is not paying attention to control messages for new
groups and is adding these groups to their active file (or equivalent thereof,
as they use Cyclone)?

Thanks,

Tom