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From: fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Problems with news.sys/news.distribution
Message-ID: <851.257e4ce6@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 16:43:34 GMT
References: <4897.257d3e75@cerritos.edu>
Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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In article <4897.257d3e75@cerritos.edu>, tanner@cerritos.edu writes:
> Since moving from News 5.7 to 5.9B, we've had a problem with News trying to
> post everything to all the sites listed in NEWS.SYS.  Under 5.7 our
> NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file was empty except for comments; under 5.9, any news
> 'source' that is not listed in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION will forward to all other
> sites in NEWS.SYS.  If a news 'source' is put in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION, it will
> only route news to the specified 'destinations' but will route ALL news
> items added or posted, not just the newsgroups that match the corresponding
> entries in NEWS.SYS.

	Look at your NEWS.SYS file to see if you included the word 'all' as
part of the entry for the site that gets everything.  I noticed that my
subdirectory was getting all news postings and not just the map even though
I told it to accept 'comp.mail.maps'.  I also had the 'all' specified as in
'all,world,na,...'.  Looks like 'all' overrides something and sends 'all'
newsitems regardless.

	Hope that may help.

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