Need help with some newsfeeds file ME line confustion

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Humes, David  G. wrote:

> I am still trying to make sense of the Usenet server that I inherited.  The
> ME line from the newsfeeds file is shown below.  Do the explicit exclusions
> for !contro,l !control.* , etc. make sense?  If the line starts off with !*
> shouldn't that be enough to exclude everything?
>
> ME\
>         :!*,!control,!control.*, at junk, at apl.*,!clari.*,!microsoft.*,\

You are correct.

At a guess, somehow had !control... and then added the !* later.  It's not
hurting anything.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org