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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: infinitely forking inews
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Date: 31 Jul 89 13:58:21 GMT
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The inews supplied with the NNTP distribution ("mini-inews") should only
be installed on client machines (i.e., machines that don't have the news
spool directory on them).  All it does is take the article, open a connection
to nntpd on the server machine (which should not be, as it apparently was in
your case, the same as the client machine), and dump the article into the
connection.

It is documented in the README file in the nntp/inews directory that mini-inews
expects to send news to a remote machine.

Try reinstalling the "real" inews from the news distribution.

Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu