[leafnode-list] Re: Leafnode can't see spamcop newsgroup

[Matthias Andree]

ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org (clemens fischer) writes:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:28:58 +0200 Matthias Andree wrote:
>
>> Tristan Miller wrote:
>>
>>> only_groups_pcre = spamcop\.
>>>
>>> I removed this line after I noticed that the spamcop newsgroup was
>>> missing.  (I should have omitted the "\." when I added that line in
>>> the first place.)
>
> what is "only_groups_pcre" good for?

Please see the leafnode(8) manual page.

> i just checked news/leaf.node/news.* files and found "interesting"
> groups registered there for every server i connect to. new groups are
> still found, and a complete "groupinfo" file exists where every group
> available is listed.

The leaf.node directory contains internal state information,
and there's a reason why its contents are scarcely documented - the
format may change any day.

-- 
Matthias Andree