Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!wesommer From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (Bill Sommerfeld) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: North American Newsgroups?? Message-ID: Date: 24 Oct 89 02:42:32 GMT References: Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Distribution: na Organization: /mit/wesommer/.organization Lines: 15 In-reply-to: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 24 Oct 89 02:28:12 GMT About an hour ago, I wrote: So, I ask, who out there is mapping "na.forsale" into "misc.forsale"? Karl Kleinpaste writes in reply: Probably an awful lot of people, Bill. Look at the sample /usr/lib/news/aliases file provided in news/src/install.sh, at least as of 2.11.18, probably much older than that. Aha! One more reason to use C News instead of B News :-) :-) :-) -- Henry Spencer is so much of a | Bill Sommerfeld at MIT/Project Athena minimalist that I often forget | sommerfeld@mit.edu he's there - anonymous |