Re: [leafnode-list] Re: only_groups_pcre - used for negation?

[Robert Marshall <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 at 02:31 GMT, William Hooper penned:
>> 
>> Brute force also works.  http://www.fredi.de/maillist/msg00030.html
>> 
>> "...I would just edit the script calling fetchnews to do a "rm
>> /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/alt.binaries.*" before fetching."
>> 
>> Extended as needed.
> 
> Hehe.  That would indeed work.  I think it's cleaner to remove them from
> the list of available groups than to have the group mysteriously
> disappear, but if it became a real problem ...

A maxbytes restriction in the filter file is also useful...

Robert

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