Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!chidsey From: chidsey@smoke.BRL.MIL (Irving Chidsey) Newsgroups: news.software.nn Subject: Re: and ANOTHER thing... Keywords: error mail upon post; "follow failed" Message-ID: <12017@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 23 Jan 90 20:53:37 GMT References: <5071@quack.UUCP> Reply-To: chidsey@brl.arpa (Irving Chidsey (INF) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 22 In article <5071@quack.UUCP> mrapple@quack.UUCP (Nick Sayer) writes: >And how can I get nn to quit sending "follow failed" mail? >Here's the situation - my home directory is chmod'd 700. >inews can't read the .sig, so it returns an error message, >which simply indicates that the .sig could not be read, >but the article is posted anyway. But nn freaks thinking >that the post failed. chmod'ing to anything but 700 is >unacceptable. If the whole world can read your .sig after it is appended to a letter, why can't it be read before? Surely the information contained therein is not that time critical! If it is that secret, just remove it. But why can't you make that one file world readable without exposing the rest of the directory? Irv -- I do not have signature authority. I am not authorized to sign anything. I am not authorized to commit the BRL, the DOA, the DOD, or the US Government to anything, not even by implication. Irving L. Chidsey