Aduke.1438
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!trt
Tue Dec  1 23:20:17 1981
Re: pur-ee.174: nag, nag, nag
The newsgroup matching process has never been documented
mainly to avoid embarassment.  Here, however, are some clues:

Subscription		Newsgroups it matches
net.ALL			anything beginning "net." (e.g. net.news.davy)
net.news		net.news, or anything beginning "net.news."
fa			fa, or anything fa.ALL matches.
fa,!fa.news,fa.news.davy
			Anything fa but not fa.news matches,
			and anything fa.news.davy matches.

Net.news is the sub-newsgroup "news" within the newsgroup "net".
Anyone who subscribes to net.news subscribes to anything below it,
such as net.news.davy.

On a related note, net.v7-bugs is an upstart.
Someone should mail notes chastising the offender(s),
and suggest they remove lines containing "ALL" from their .ngfile.
Or just be apathetic and submit the article to both newsgroups:
news -i yet another silly bug  -n net.v7bugs net.v7-bugs  
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