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From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C News sys file strangeness
Message-ID: <KAYVAN.89Sep5004525@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 07:45:27 GMT
Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Organization: Transact Software, Inc.
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I have the following line in my sys file that does not seem to work:

#
# Mail rec.humor.funny to users
#
funnystuff:rec.humor.funny::mail user1 user2 user3

I wondered whether it was lack of a flag in the flag field. I created the
following entry:

#
# testing
test:ba.test::mail kayvan

I posted various articles with local distribution to ba.test and did not
get a copy of the articles... I tried putting the 'B' flag in the
flag field, making:

test:ba.test:B:mail kayvan

No change. I did not get mailed the articles I posted. What gives?

Incidentally, the following line *does* work:

#
# Locally generated news gets sent to usenet as well
#
localstuff:ba,ca,inet,world,bionet,unix-pc,usrgroup,comp,sci,news,\
	rec,soc,talk,misc,na,usa,alt,pubnet,su,biz,essug,gnu,to,\
	!to.coherent.ctl,!to.mrspoc.ctl:L:mail usenet

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks, Geoff and Henry, for the great software.

			---Kayvan
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