[leafnode-list] Preventing crossposting to a local group?

Lloyd Zusman ljz at asfast.com
Tue Dec 7 19:50:03 CET 2004


> Lloyd Zusman <ljz at asfast.com> writes:
>
>> [ ... ] I want to set up a local group that will
>> reject all articles that are crosspost attempts.  [ ... ]

>
> Does something like this work (as filter; adjust the newsgroup name to
> be a Perl compatible regular expression):
>
> newsgroups = ^local\.nocrossposts$
> maxcrosspost = 1
> action = kill

Ah!  I missed this in the docs.  Thanks.


> If not, does it work only for local or only for remote posts?

Well, because I overlooked the documentation about this, I hadn't tried
it at all.  When I get back from work this evening, I'll create this set
of filter rules and test them, and then I'll report back here.


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz at asfast.com
 God bless you.





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