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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Rename newsgroups?
Message-ID: <6413@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 89 14:45:37 GMT
References: <ANU-NEWS%89072313295703@NDSUVM1> <6342@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <Jul.23.18.49.35.1989.14735@pilot.njin.net>
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In article <Jul.23.18.49.35.1989.14735@pilot.njin.net>, limonce@pilot.njin.net
 (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
> Wow!  Thanks!

You are welcome.  I thought it might work, but I wasn't sure.  I use the trick
of "ADD FILE/RETRY NEWS_DEVICE:[JUNK]*.ITM" to repost items that came in
before a newsgroup was created.

> I don't really remember NEWS.ALIAS in the documentation.  What is it?

The documentation is in Chapter 10, section 10.8 of the V5.8 manual.
Basically, it is used to map one newsgroup name to another. For example, I
used to occasionally get articles that had "Newsgroup: net.info-vax" ending up
in junk.  I just added a line to the NEWS.ALIASES file like:

net.info-vax comp.os.vms

and the articles were routed to the proper group.
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