From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43982 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Milhollan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quimby problems Date: 23 Mar 2002 15:55:25 GMT Organization: yes Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016898994 12164 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2002 15:56:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16onsf-0003A5-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 16:56:33 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16onrs-0004u2-00; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:55:44 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:55:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA17804 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:55:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 10153 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2002 15:55:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10148 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2002 15:55:27 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Mar 2002 15:55:27 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16onym-0001QJ-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:02:52 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-209-78-192-139.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1016899371 4033 209.78.192.139 (23 Mar 2002 16:02:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Mar 2002 16:02:51 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, i386-redhat-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43982 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43982 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >I'm having problems with inn on Quimby. It's receiving a gazillion >hipcrime newgroup messages, and this seems to be killing it, even >though I've put "drop" into all the newgroup rules. (Before that, it >just got to a load of 80, and then died.) Is Quimby a leaf? Could you live without control messages, adding or removing groups manually? If so you might ask your upstreams/peers to eliminate them from your feed. (Leave the controlchan stuff in place, in case of leaks.) /mark