Xref: utzoo news.admin:6490 news.software.b:2723 comp.lang.sigplan:19 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,comp.lang.sigplan Subject: Cnews strikes again? - Re: newgroup comp.lang.sigplan Summary: * FIX C NEWS * Message-ID: <1631@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 5 Aug 89 09:06:30 GMT References: <1989Aug3.112451.21772@nc386.uucp> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "David Wright" Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 35 Approved: news@stl.stc.co.uk In article <1989Aug3.112451.21772@nc386.uucp> rhg@nc386.uucp (Rich Garrett) writes: #This article generated by inews -C comp.lang.sigplan. #-- #Richard H. Garrett rhg@ncoast.org #uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!rhg ncoast!rhg@hal.cwru.edu #NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 582-2460, 1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser And there are more where that came from - they're just hitting our news server as I type this. A likely consequence is that this and the other affected news groups' moderators will get hundreds of copies of articles posted as some parts of the net show the group moderated while others don't. I presume that C news is to blame (look at that great long C news style Reference), rather than Richard himself deciding to disrupt the net. It appears that doing what for B news is an innocent command to create a news group locally will, with C news, send that newgroup control message to the entire net. Of course there is a way in C news to specify a local distribution, but it seems that people used to B news's more civilised default control distribution of 'local' keep getting caught out by the different behaviour. WHY DOES C NEWS DO THIS? PLEASE will the C news people issue an urgent patch or update to C news (marked MANDATORY :-) ) to change its behaviour so that control articles are by default sent to local distribution, as currently happens with B news. I know that they believe C news doesn't have to be completely compatible with B news, but in this respect IT REALLY DOES. Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW "In general, it is best to assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets designed to have the worst possible effect" From the draft "Requirements for Internet Hosts" RFC