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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C News: inews -C doesn't do what it should
Message-ID: <1989Jul15.085917.5017@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 15 Jul 89 08:59:17 GMT
Reply-To: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Organization: Disillusioned Graduate Hackers, Santa Barbara, CA
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inews -C group.group

In Bnews, the above command would create a group and not mail out
control messages all over the world.

In Cnews (as I found out from a *nasty* letter from epsilon@wet),
the control messages are sent out.

A quick fix for this is to add

Distribution: local

to line 108 of:

[source tree]/relaynews/sh/inews

and, if you already have it installed, to:

/usr/bin/inews
/usr/lib/newsbin/inject/inews      (these two files might be in diff spots
					on your machine)

BTW, in the next release of C News, would it be possible to link
these last two files together if possible?  They are the same, as
far as I can tell.

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Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
"Santa Barbara - so many babes... so few who will talk to me."