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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How can I remain calm?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 20:56:08 GMT
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brodie@fps.mcw.edu writes:
>Actually, I was not aware of "version" and "uuname" control messages.
>Because I'm running a VMS implementation of news, I don't have all
>the documentation that normally gets distributed with unix-like news.

I have a feeling that a lot of administrators don't know about 'version'
or 'senduuname'. I found out about them more-or-less by accident (docs?
I don't need no stinkin' docs!). The relevant RFCs (850 and 1036) are
very useful references for this sort of thing.

>As far as my disk capacity, I don't have quotas set, and have virtually
>a whole disk to myself.  

Probably a very good thing!

>As far as the distribution goes, I did indeed make a mistake in that
>I *intended* it to be usa-based only.  Oh well :-(

It's not the first time. The last time one of these went wild, there was
a lot more noise heard than this time. I suspect that's because the return 
messages haven't jammed any sites up yet (hopefully they won't, but they'll
probably take out one or two :-( ).

--John

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