Aduke.1610 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!trt Thu Jan 14 13:34:02 1982 Re: cca.261: newsgroup selection In newsgroup matching, ALL is similar to sh(I)'s * and . is similar to sh(I)'s /. Articles are submitted to an unordered set of newsgroups, and read by subscribing to an " " ". An article submitted to "vlsi,graphics" will be read by anyone subscribing to "vlsi", or "graphics", or "graphics,vlsi". Newsgroups implement a keyword-based retrieval system. The subscription (meta) newsgroup "taxALL" matches tax, taxes, taxation, and taxonomy, and "tALL" matches telecom and taxes. News is certainly not a real bibliographic retrieval system. It does have a title matcher: "news -a -t setuid" find articles whose articles contain "setuid" (but not suid or even Setuid). Maybe we should add: "news -a -T setuid" to search the entire article. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.