Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News: inews -C doesn't do what it should
Message-ID: <1989Jul17.215732.25102@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jul15.085917.5017@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 21:57:32 GMT

In article <1989Jul15.085917.5017@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>inews -C group.group
>
>In Bnews, the above command would create a group and not mail out
>control messages all over the world.

Well, in some versions of B News.  The old ones we were used to weren't
that restrictive.

We will do *something* about this, as it's a common complaint and we
consider it serious.  We're not yet quite sure what.  The right way to
add a group locally is with "addgroup", although this is not well
publicized in the documentation.  We may just delete "inews -C" entirely,
as there is no point in integrating this function into inews if it never
sends out a control message.  (inews is for posting messages, remember?)

>/usr/bin/inews
>/usr/lib/newsbin/inject/inews
>
>BTW, in the next release of C News, would it be possible to link
>these last two files together if possible? ...

They are indeed identical.  I'm not a big fan of links, but I'll take
a look at this.
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