trouble with cleanfeed.conf

[Bill Tangren]

Bill Tangren wrote:
> I am having trouble with cleanfeed.conf. I have a small internal news 
> server (no external feeds). On that server, I have disallowed binaries 
> using this block in cleanfeed.conf:
> 
>     bin_allowed => '^\w+\.binae?r|^alt\.sex\.pictures|^fur\.artwork'.
>       '|^alt\.anonymous\.messages$|^de\.alt\.dateien|^rec\.games\.bolo$'.
>       '|^comp\.security\.pgp\.test$|^sfnet\.tiedostot'.
>       '|^fido\.|^linux\.|^unidata\.'.
>       '|^usno',
> 
> The last line is what I added to disallow binaries on our news groups 
> (all of which start with 'usno'). This worked just fine. The problem is 
> that I now want to allow binaries, but removing the last line, and 
> putting a comma in place of the period at the end of the previous line, 
> does not allow binaries after restarting the server. I then set
> 
> block_binaries => 0,
> 
> and restarted the server. No joy. I then commented out the bin_allowed 
> block above, and put in
> 
> bin_allowed => 1,
> 
> Still no joy. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Bill Tangren (using inn 2.3.5)
> 
> 
> 

Well, removing cleanfeed entirely doesn't solve the problem. I get this 
error in the newsgroup log:

Oct  7 10:55:23.476 - not-for-mail <bluk4r$fbs$2 at aa.usno.navy.mil> 437 
Binary in non-binary group

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

Bill