Awatmath.1332 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Fri Dec 18 21:35:13 1981 Re: Fascinating Active File Facts Another thing people who want to eliminate newsgroups can do is chown the directory for that newsgroup away from 'news' inews tries to write into it, but can't. It doesn't give an error message though, and passes the article on to other systems if this should be the case. This is no doubt an 'undocumented feature' and some comment should come from glickman on it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.