From: ADVAX::"mcnc!VM1.NoDak.EDU!gih900%SAO.AARNET.EDU.AU" "Geoff Huston" 13-SEP-1990 10:14:32.02 To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS CC: Subj: Re: Excessive JUNK -- what's wrong with NEWS.SYS? Received: by ADVAX.DECnet (utk-mail11 v1.5) ; Thu, 13 Sep 90 10:16:29 EDT Received: from mcnc by ge-dab.GE.COM (5.61/GE-DAB 1.12) with UUCP id AA17618 for everhart; Thu, 13 Sep 90 10:16:21 -0400 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by mcnc.mcnc.org (5.59/MCNC/6-11-90) id AA12495; Thu, 13 Sep 90 09:54:53 -0400 Message-Id: <9009131354.AA12495@mcnc.mcnc.org> Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) with BSMTP id 4571; Thu, 13 Sep 90 08:54:23 CDT Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4563; Thu, 13 Sep 90 08:54:19 CDT Date: Fri, 14 Sep 90 03:05:34 GMT Reply-To: Geoff Huston Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion From: Geoff Huston Subject: Re: Excessive JUNK -- what's wrong with NEWS.SYS? To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS In article <1990Sep10.173156.10@rtpark.rtp.semi.harris.com>, rlb@rtpark.rtp.semi .harris.com writes: > -- > We have been running ANU News for about 2.5 to 3 weeks now. We are still > seeing hundreds of items going to JUNK. I've looked at the NEWS.SYS file > and don't understand why it's still happening. > > Here is a sample header > >>X-NEWS: rtpark junk: 22552Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 10/3/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site rtpark.rtp.semi.harris.com >>Newsgroups: rec.music.makers >>Distribution: na > > Here are the lines from our NEWS.SYS file after all the comments > about how to set up the NEWS.SYS file: > ============================================================================= > # > me:to.rtpvv1,inet,to.rtpark,local,control,junk,\ > comp,alt,gnu,harris,misc,net,news,rec,semi,\ > sci,soc,talk,triangle,vmsnet,world,general,!alt.sex > #distributions: > #:::na,world,triangle,nc,usa,inet,harris > # > slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com:alt,comp,gnu,\ > harris,net,news,misc,rec,sci,semi,soc,talk,\ > triangle,vmsnet,general,world,!alt.sex,inet:N:\ > news_manager_dev/[nntp_wintcp]slopoke.IDS:na,world,triangle,nc,usa,harris,inet > # > slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com:to.slopoke:B:\ > news_manager_dev/[nntp_wintcp]slopoke.BATCH Distribution: na is causing the reject One method is: me:to.rtpvv1,inet,to.rtpark,local,control,junk,\ comp,alt,gnu,harris,misc,net,news,rec,semi,\ sci,soc,talk,triangle,vmsnet,world,general,!alt.sex,\ na,world,triangle,nc,usa,inet,harris:: or even me:all,!alt.sex:: if all you want to do is not accept a single group in the incoming feed. Geoff