Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: Question re alt.comp.os.linux Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:23:11 -0700 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ZhGkoEZKBBWayQB6zmkO1wkpITESdEg5p8qjIEk025afLeRTLK Cancel-Lock: sha1:EIIKxjI8tKKC2AwJ8eqsCP6wlsI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:27859 alt.os.linux:58189 Carlos E.R. wrote: > 2) Have those groups really disappeared? My NSP does not carry alt.comp.lang.pascal or alt.comp.os.linux. If I were to refresh my groups list, my NSP would provide me w/ a list of the groups which it carries; but your situation is different. You via Tb 'correspond' w/ Leafnode, not a regular NSP. Your Leafnode gets its feeds from some feed. The leafnode docs talk about problems between fetchnews (and OE) but not specifically about Tb. This fetchnews item is of some interest: // 6. I have unsubscribed from a newsgroup, but fetchnews still pulls articles for that group. Your news reader talks to leafnode via the NNTP protocol. This protocol provides no means for Leafnode to determine which newsgroups you are actually subscribe. Therefore, Leafnode assumes that a newsgroup that is not read for a certain time (which can be configured with the timeout_long parameter) is unsubscribed and will only stop retrieving articles in it after this time. If you are impatient and want to stop retrieving articles from that group immediately, delete the corresponding file in the /var/spool/news/ interesting.groups/ directory. The articles that are already in your spool are still subject to the regular texpire schedule, however. // -- Mike Easter