TALLY.UNWANTED(8)

👑 TALLY.UNWANTED 💅

okay so welcome to the manual page for tally.unwanted, section 8 of the System Manager's Manual — yes bestie, that's the big sysadmin girlies section, main character energy fr fr.

✨ NAME ✨

tally.unwanted — keep track of unwanted newsgroups. 🚫📰

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tally.unwanted

that's it. no flags. no arguments. she just goes. 💅

📝 DECSRIPTION 📝

(yes the original manual page spells it like that, we keep it, no cap 💀)

tally.unwanted is normally invoked by scanlogs(8). she doesn't usually show up on her own — she's a supporting character with a very important job, iykyk.

what she does: she parses the article log file and updates unwanted.log, which is the cumulative list of articles posted to unwanted newsgroups. like, a running receipts file for all the posts nobody wanted. 🗒️✨

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.1, dated 1996/10/29. vintage. iconic. the elders really ate with this one. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• innd(8)
• innlog.pl(8)
• news.daily(8)
• newslog(5)
• nnrpd(8)
• scanlogs(8)
• tally.control(8)
• tally.unwanted(8)
• writelog(8)

(also she's listed in her own SEE ALSO, which is very self-love of her honestly 💖)

lowkey a tiny page, highkey essential. tally.unwanted from the System Manager's Manual, section 8, TALLY.UNWANTED(8) — periodt. 🫶🌸