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From: greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News software (was: Thoughts on the new-group creation process)
Message-ID: <457@hades.OZ>
Date: 10 Oct 89 16:33:04 GMT
References: <5654@inco.UUCP>
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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in article <5654@inco.UUCP>, mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) says:
> .........  There may be a couple of other exceptions as well, but in
> general, an article which has no valid newsgroups will be junked and
> not be sent to other sites.

Oh.... yeah?. We run Bnews (I think) and man inews says (talking about
inews -p):

     When inews	receives an article this way, it will check the
     history file to make sure that the	article	is not already
     present, and it will make certain consistency checks to make
     sure that the newsgroup names are legal and that the sys
     file permits the article to be installed on the local
     machine. Once the article passes those checks, it is
     installed in the appropriate directory on the local machine.
     If	the article fails those	checks,	it is installed	in news-
     group junk	on the local machine. In any event, inews will
				      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     then transmit the article to all systems that match in the
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     sys file and are not mentioned in the Path: field of the
     ^^^^^^^^
     just-posted message. The details of this transmission are
     determined	by the contents	of the sys file.

	Hmmmm?
		Greyham.

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