Re: ME: cannot make sense out of it

In article <20030520110046.GA1427@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hartmut Gehrke-Tschudi  <hgtschudi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
| I am new in handling Inn. Worked with Cnews before. Suse 8.2 doesnt
| support it any more. Inn runs fine. only problem is configuration for
| my standalone PC. 
| 
| UUCP seems to be outdated. But, helas, I am getting my feed via
| UUCP. And like it.
| 
| So I would like to know how to configure it. I am totally
| irritated with that NNTP business of Inn. And started to read a lot.
| But I couldn`t make sense out of it.
| 
| I am very much irritated with "/etc/newsfeeds" understanding of "!":
| 
| ME:!*/!local,!collabra-internal::
| 
|  " ! */  "  tells me  n o t  to accept all. It's the opposite to what
| is explained in that section:

It doesn't mean that, it means exactly what it says about the ME entry.
The part before '/' is the default subscription list, what you send if
you don't explicitly do otherwise. The part after the '/' is a list of
what you will accept.

The documentation is good, but it doesn't help if you read it and assume
it can't mean what it says. It does.

| "# Empty default subscription list, reject all incoming articles with
| "# a distribution of "local" or "collabra-internal," accept all
| "# others.
| "ME:!*/!local,!collabra-internal::

That is correct.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.