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From: robert@woodt.uucp (Robert Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Can somebody explain the anne.jones file?
Message-ID: <1990Apr6.051900.8956@woodt.uucp>
Date: 6 Apr 90 05:19:00 GMT
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Organization: WoodTechnique, Inc.
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The anne.jones file completely mystifies me.  I know it is the netnews censor,
but How do I use it?  I wish to specify which users are allowed ot post
outside the machine, but I havent the foggiest how to do it. Whoever
put together the cnews scripts is a twisted, brilliant person.  They are 
the most complicated things i have seen yet. 

What is the role of the sys file?  I know it determines outgoing feeds,
but it seems to have some control over incoming files, also.
is there much use for the f flag in a sys entry?  I run a small site
attached to a backbone, so I simple want to ship out locally generated
articles.  It would seem that inews looks in the sys file to see who gets
the article, but then what?  Does it write it's id in the togo file?

At what point does the batcher get involved?  I realize it needs to be run
by cron.

I am very pleased with cnews.  It came up and ran with little or no help
from me.  This is my first news admin, and things are going very well
so far.  ( I am scrambling up the learning curve as best i can :-)

-- 
Robert Sexton, Woodtechnique Inc. 
robert@woodt.UUCP ukma!woodt!robert