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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: ME/my.real.name (was Re: Cnews pathnames)
Message-ID: <1990May31.165628.11453@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 31 May 90 16:56:28 GMT
References: <1990May30.165503.12772@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)

In article <1990May30.165503.12772@ucselx.sdsu.edu>, nash@ucselx (Ron Nash) writes:
| I am running BSD4.3 with Cnews patched thru April 1990.  I have several
| nntp feeds via internet and just added some UUCP feeds.  The problem
| I have encountered is that 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.
| 
| I have changed my sys file entry from "ME:" to "ME/ucselx.sdsu.edu:",
| in hopes of stopping these articles from my UUCP feeds.  I have also
| asked them to put "ucselx/ucselx.sdsu.edu:" in their sys file entry for
| me if they run Cnews.

[I'm running six-month-old Cnews, so disclaimers are necessary here if
this has already been fixed.]

/usr/lib/newsbin/ctl/newgroup presumes that your subscription list is
on the (virtual) line with the first field of exactly "me" or "ME",
and nothing else.  I couldn't figure out why newgroup messages weren't
happening when I made the change you describe, and tracked it down to
this.

So, leave it "ME", or fix ctl/newgroup.

Just another Cnews admin,
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