Outgoing news is controlled by the "newsfeeds" file.  The INN 1.2 man
page for this file is a bit complex.  The man page in 1.3 (and beyond)
gives better examples.  Here's a "cookbook" of examples that should
cover most of your needs.  Debugging tips are also included.

Always remember that newsfeeds uses "wildmat" matches, not the
semi-regular expressions that C news uses.  This means that if you want
to get comp.foo and the subgroups under it (comp.foo.bar, comp.foo.baz,
etc.) you have to use a statement like:

comp.foo,comp.foo.*

OR

comp.foo*

BUT NOT

comp.foo.*

However, "comp.foo*" will match "comp.foobar", as well as
"comp.foo.bang".



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