Fate of unix-pc.* (was Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.sys.3b1)

[Dave Hanna]

In article <73513 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> templon at copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) writes:
>                                                 I am aware of the argument
>that people will be forced to take a whole heirarchy (comp) in order to
>get comp.sys.3b1.  My best information says that this is not true; apparently
>it is not a simple thing to select only a few groups, but then neither is
>setting up HDB with a telebit.

This should be a non-issue.  Getting a small subset of groups is easy
if the news administrator at your feed knows _anything_ about it.  He
just edits the "sys" file entry for your site and lists (explicitly)
the groups you want, or alternatively, lists broad classes of groups
(e.g., comp, rec, soc, etc.) and then lists explicitly the exceptions
by prefixing them with an exclamation point (e.g., comp.sys,!comp.sys.ibm 
would feed all "comp.sys" groups except for the comp.sys.ibm hierarchy).
So if all you wanted was the 3b1 groups, the news administrator at
your feeding site would just list in your sys entry
    comp.sys.3b1, comp.sources.3b1
(or whatever we end up naming them).  If you already are receiving a
partial feed that is satisfactory, but you want to start getting 
these groups, he just adds those to the list of groups you are getting.

>				Jeff



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