Re: [leafnode-list] romoving groups quickly?

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

Mark Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 05:49:14PM -0500, John A. Perry wrote:
> 
> > 	What's the best way to cause leafnode to completely forget about a
> > particular newsgroup and not pick it up on any subsequent runs of
> > fetchnews?
> 
> Delete the appropriate file in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/

I just put an additional paragraph concerning this question into the
FAQ. It currently reads:

%snip
15. I have unsubscribed a newsgroup, but fetchnews still retrieves articles
from it.

   Your news reader talks to leafnode via the NNTP protocol. This
   protocol provides no means for Leafnode to determine which newsgroups
   you are actually subscribe. Therefore, Leafnode assumes that a
   newsgroup that is not read for a certain time (which can be configured
   with the "timeout_long" parameter) is unsubscribed and will only stop
   retrieving articles in it after this time.

   If you are somewhat impatient and want to immediately stop fetchnews
   retrieving articles from a certain group, delete the appropriate file
   in the directory /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ .
%snip

Any suggestions to make it more intelligible are welcome.

--Cornelius.

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