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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News software (was: Thoughts on the new-group creation process)
Message-ID: <5683@inco.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 17:28:24 GMT
References: <5654@inco.UUCP> <457@hades.OZ>
Reply-To: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Co. McLean VA
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In article <457@hades.OZ> greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) writes:
>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):
>
[quoting inews man page:]
>     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.

Sorry, I didn't look at the man page. I read the code, which says,
in part (inews.c/patchlevel17:insert()):

	...
	    is_invalid =
		ngfcheck(username, mode == PROC, header.approved[0] != '\0');
	...
	if (is_invalid) {
		logerr("%s: No valid newsgroups found, moved to junk",
			header.nbuf);
		if (localize("junk"))
			savehist(histline);
		exitcode = 1;
		goto writeout;
	}
	...
writeout:
	...
	if(exitcode == 0) {
	...
		broadcast(mode==PROC);
	...
	}
	xxit((mode == PROC && filename[0] == '\0') ? 0 :
		(exitcode < 0 ? 0 : exitcode));
}

All of this is ifndef NFSCLIENT, of course.

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