From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 04:48:43 CDT
In <87yae0sus1.fsf@slip-32-101-160-34.ma.us.ibm.net> greg andruk <meowing@banet.net> writes:
>XHDR/XPAT/PAT can be used to decide what articles to grab, and NEWNEWS
>always had a distribution parameter. They rarely get checked though.
The NNTP people are proposing to drop the Distribution featuire of NEWNEWS
:-( .
>We use embedded filters. There is a filter rule in widespead use
>right now, to drop only newgroups and rmgroups with a
>'collabra-internal' distribution.
Would that the collabra misusers would consistenly manage to incorporate
that distribution :-( .
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