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From: greg@uop.EDU (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Question about sys file F flag
Message-ID: <1603@uop.uop.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 89 19:56:43 GMT
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Organization: University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
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mrapple@quack.UUCP (Nick Sayer) writes:

>From experimentation:
>MAPS:world,na,usa,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/.....

>works, while
>MAPS:comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/...

>never makes any attempt at all to append to the file
>in question (verified by looking at log & errlog files).

You must supply the distributions you wish to use.  The first example
line works because the maps are distributed in one of those distributions
(one of world, na, usa).  News 3 (as well as C news?) breaks the group
subscriptions and the distributions into two different fields so they
make more sense.  Of course, having groups with the first component of
the group name also being a distribution is broken... (ba.market with
distr. ba, example), but changing it would be a major undertaking.

Cheers!greg
PS. Of course, you could have just asked...