Timothy Luoma responded to a suggestion given him by Alan Stebbens:
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| * ^Subject: next-announce
| { NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.software }
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| * ^Subject: next-bugs
| { NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.bugs }
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| * ^Subject: next-hardware
| { NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.hardware }
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| * ^Subject: next-marketplace
| { NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.marketplace }
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| * ^Subject: next-misc
| { NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.misc }
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| * ^Subject: next-software
| { NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.software }
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| * ^Subject: next-sysadmin
| { NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.sysadmin }
Goodness. Why not just
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* ^Subject: next-\/(announce|bugs|hardware|marketplace|misc|software|sysadmin)
{ NEWSGROUP=comp.sys.next.$MATCH }