There is no built in feature to hide empty groups from users of a certain class. You can however hide groups based on their name to certain users, IP ranges, or user groups.
Details on doing that can be found at http://www.netwinsite.com/dnews/access.htm - Roydon L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > : reject: Message is too old: > > im just archiving the past 7 days of messages from all the alts except binaries. how do i hide empty groups from remote users accessing my server with an nntp client? > > "Netwin Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It looks like a large number of articles are being rejected for some reason. > >You may want to investigate that. See the dnews.in log file for details on > >why the articles are being rejected. > > > >If the articles are being sent via ihave from the remote host, you will want > >to get them to configure their server only to send alt.* and not *binaries*. > >That would possibly be causing the high reject count. > > > >You can hide empty groups using the command - > > > > tellnews empty_hide > > > >The groups are not deleted as DNews needs to remember them in order to avoid > >adding them again in the future. > > > >- Roydon L. > > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >> > >> Sites that have sent us articles since the last expire: > >> Posts Rejects Dup Total Articles/S Kbytes/s K Site > >> 566 43533 123 44222 25.21 701.56 1227025k 0.00% > >news.xxxxxxxxx > >> > >> seems to be running fine now... (currently downloading all articles in > >past 7 days from alt.* except binaries) > >> > >> how do i delete groups which contain no articles after it completes? > >> > >> > >> "Netwin Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Generally info messages can be ignored. I don't think they have any > >> >relevance to your problem, they are just called periodically to perform > >> >various functions where necessary. > >> > > >> >What do you mean "it doesnt seem to respond to any commands"? > >> > > >> >How are you trying to use DNews? Standalone, sucking, ihave. > >> > > >> >- Roydon L. > >> > > >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >> >> > >> >> I'd like to get dnews working at least to some extent before my trial > >is > >> >up.. I've followed countless examples given on this forum to no avail. > >I > >had > >> >it working at one point but it was terribly slow so I went back and tried > >> >the examples given to me on this site and now its just dead. > >> >> > >> >> :28 :info: db_piles_trim called > >> >> 8 12:06:28 :info: db_pile_status > >> >> 8 12:06:28 :info: db_pile_status_done > >> >> 8 12:06:28 :info: dnews_status 1 > >> >> 8 12:06:28 :info: dnews_status 2 > >> >> 8 12:06:28 :info: dnews_status 3 > >> >> 8 12:06:32 :info: uucp_flush2 called > >> >> 8 12:07:29 :info: db_piles_trim called > >> >> 8 12:07:29 :info: db_pile_status > >> >> 8 12:07:29 :info: db_pile_status_done > >> >> 8 12:07:29 :info: dnews_status 1 > >> >> 8 12:07:29 :info: dnews_status 2 > >> >> 8 12:07:29 :info: dnews_status 3 > >> >> 8 12:07:33 :info: uucp_flush2 called > >> >> > >> >> i see that about 5000 times a day, can someone please help me get this > >> >working correctly? its really becoming a headache and im about ready to > >move > >> >on to a different solution.. > >> >> > >> >> ive tried everything, it doesnt seem to respond to any commands and > >sure > >> >doesnt start sucking automatically when i first start the server like it > >> >should. > >> >> > >> >> thanks, > >> >> cullen > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > >
