Re: Expire -o JUNK doesn't.

Arnoud (galactus@stack.nl)
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:27:15 +0100

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In article <Nvyxyo3qBuMC092yn@airmail.net>,
pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
> Don't the doc's say that if everything is setup properly, you should
> never receive messages to the junk area?

Nope. 'junk' is a newsgroup to which articles get filtered that
don't fit anywhere else. If everything was perfect, you'd never
see anything there. Unfortunately, it isn't perfect.

> You may have a group in your newsrc file that is not in the active
> file?

Possible. Or the group you ARE reading is the 1,245th newsgroup in
the Newsgroups: header in the article, and uqwk choked on the long
line and chopped it. Yarn then can't determine which newsgroup it
should go in and junks it.

Galactus

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