Subba Rao <sailorn@attglobal.net> writes:

> Hello again,
>
> Now that I have my local Leafnode News working, I tried to setup some
> filters. This is what my filters file looks like:
>
> ^Newsgroups:.*[, ]alt.flame$
> ^Newsgroups:.*[, ]alt.flame,
> ^Newsgroups:.*[, ].*erotic.*
>
> I added the last line to avoid download or attempting to download
> anything from newsgroups with the text "*erotic*".
>
> For testing, I subscribed to one of the groups and it started to
> download news items from that group. I thought the filter is supposed
> to block that.
>
> How can I configure Leafnode not download any groups with some text
> such as *erotic* or *binaries* etc?

I believe the filters work on individual messages and not entire
newsgroups. If the filter above works, leafnode will let users join
any newsgroup but the filter will prevent them from seeing any
messages in those groups.

>
> Also, how can I delete these files that were downloaded by Leafnode?
> I have unsubscribed from that group. Does that mean Leafnode will
> clean up and delete those files OR do I have to login as root and
> delete them manually?

Leafnode will automatically delete those messages after a certain
number of days. It depends what the expire value is in the leafnode
config file.