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- From: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny)
- Subject: Limiting the collection of articles to a few hierarchies?
- Originator: gerald@gerald
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <gerald.721873430@gerald>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:23:50 GMT
- Reply-To: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com
- Organization: IBM Canada Ltd.
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- I would like to know how to limit nnmaster's article collection to a
- (relatively) small number of hierarchies. I get my feed from an NNTP
- server with a very comprehensive list of groups, which is nice. However,
- my database is already more than 50 Mb (although "nnadmin s" reports it
- to be only 25 Mb), and constantly growing. Is there an easy way to tell
- nnmaster to collect articles from (for example) alt., bit., comp., news.,
- rec., soc., and talk., and to ignore all other groups entirely?
- I tried the following:
-
- nnmaster -l -r -C alt bit comp news rec soc talk
-
- but it is still adding groups like chile.revistas.informatica and
- uk.bcs.announce to my $MASTER/GROUPS file.
-
- Also, there are currently about 2000 groups in my GROUPS file that I'd
- rather ignore entirely...is there an easy way to remove them without
- editing the file line by line or re-initializing the database?
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Gerald
-