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From: brodie@fps.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: "requestable" control messages and ANU-NEWS enhancement?
Message-ID: <3209.253b4e14@fps.mcw.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 21:06:44 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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I found out by CHANCE that my news system had sent out a reply to
a recent "version" request from uunet.

I think that "requestable" control messages (uuname, version, sendsys) 
should be additionally handled by the following:

1) MAIL a copy of the request to USENET.   This is done with "newgroup",
   "rmgroup", and (optionally) "cancel" messages.   Why not the others?

2) NEWS_EXECUTE_CONTROL logical should also apply to these requests.

I *really* would like to see item number 1) above implemented, and I
doubt it's real tough (Geoff?).  Number 2 is questionable.
The way "version/sendsys/etc" are done now, is by a one-line log
entry in RNEWS_xxxxx.LOG.  I don't know about the rest of you, but
I don't check these logs on a daily basis, only when I suspect there
is a problem.

Any comments, anyone?
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