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From: jeh@simpact.com
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Problems with news.sys/news.distribution
Message-ID: <772.257fa4a8@simpact.com>
Date: 8 Dec 89 19:10:16 GMT
References: <4897.257d3e75@cerritos.edu>
Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
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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.

In 5.8 (I think), and certainly in 5.9, the meaning of "all" changed.  I think
that it now means "everything, except for groups explicitly denied via !name".
Check your news.sys entries for "all"s, and get rid of them. 

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG 
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