Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews pathnames
Message-ID: <1990May30.234308.8428@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990May30.165503.12772@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 May 90 23:43:08 GMT

In article <1990May30.165503.12772@ucselx.sdsu.edu> nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash) writes:
>... Cnews inserts "ucselx.sdsu.edu" into the path
>for the UUCP feeds.  While this is fine for NNTP feeds, the UUCP feeds
>don't recongise that "ucselx" is "ucselx.sdsu.edu" and send me back
>the same articles with a modified path.  Then my machine has an attitude
>attack and corrupts the active file and my history file.

We'd be interested to see details on the latter; they should just get
bounced as duplicates.  As for what gets put in Path, it's whatever you
told "build" the name of your machine was for news purposes.  We should
probably underline this more firmly in the documentation:  as in any
network naming scheme, you and your neighbors *must* agree on your news
name or trouble will ensue.

>I have changed my sys file entry from "ME:" to "ME/ucselx.sdsu.edu:",
>in hopes of stopping these articles from my UUCP feeds...

This probably won't help.  I believe that subfield is ignored on the ME
line.  Geoff?

>I have also
>asked them to put "ucselx/ucselx.sdsu.edu:" in their sys file entry for
>me if they run Cnews.

Simply changing the *names* of their sys-file entries (and the corresponding
batch directories) to your new name will cure the problem.  If they know
you as "ucselx" and you know yourself as "ucselx.sdsu.edu", it really
should not surprise you that things go wrong.
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