At 07:32 PM 4/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:30:18 +1200, NetWin Support Auckland
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >You can stop this by adding to dnews.conf
> > active_static true
> >then only groups you create manually will exist.
>
>Please explain if/how this differs from a string of directives like ...
>
> groups_at 999 999
> groups_at2 999 999
Dnews also sucks the list of groups if you have more than about 600 cached
groups, so
even with the above settings dnews might suddenly add all the groups from
the upstream
site, it's much safer to set active_static true
ChrisP.
