Allowing incoming crossposts to local groups

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Donald Roeber wrote:

> As I understand it, if a distribution pattern for an incoming peer is 
> set to not accept articles for a certain group, these articles are not 
> accepted if the group name exists in the Newsgroups: header at all.

I think the difference between ! patterns and @ patterns will serve you 
here (see the newsfeeds(5) manpage).

(Careful, "distribution" is a technical term in this context, and it 
refers to the part of the pattern after the optional slash.  But I know 
what you mean.)


> I'd like to accept all articles for my local groups, but only if 
> they're crossposted articles.  What is the best way to go about this?  
> Should I remove the exclusion pattern from my incoming peers 
> definition, and then do all of my article handling with filter_innd.pl? 

Are you using Cleanfeed anyway?  It has support for all sorts of crazy 
stuff (I don't think your needs are crazy, though; INN should be able to 
handle them as is).


>   What sort of overhead would this be for the system?

Probably not enough to worry about.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
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