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From: fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help!  With ihave/sendme and C news.
Summary: No soap.
Message-ID: <1990Jun3.191857.8088@ladc.bull.com>
Date: 3 Jun 90 19:18:57 GMT
References: <1990Jun2.010920.729@ladc.bull.com> <1990Jun3.000607.8128@utzoo.uucp>
Sender: news@ladc.bull.com (Usenet News)
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc. Los Angeles Development Center
Lines: 35

In article <1990Jun3.000607.8128@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
}In article <1990Jun2.010920.729@ladc.bull.com> I write:
}>[...]
}>It seems that when relaynews "posts" the ihave control article, it appears
}>in the control newsgroup, and the message-id of said article gets put into
}>turnkey.ihave/togo.  The batcher faithfully picks this message ID up and
}>posts it as another ihave control article...
}I think you've got some sort of problem with the sys-file line with
}turnkey.ihave/togo in it.  It should be excluding both sendmes and
}ihaves from that batch file.  Just out of paranoia... I note you've
}split it into two with a backslash... there wouldn't by any chance be
}some white space after that backslash, would there?  Relaynews is, in
}most cases, quite intolerant of extraneous white space, and isn't good
}at diagnosing the problem.  Try making that line all one (long) line,
}and see if that cures it.

Well, I tried that, and the behavior didn't change.  (And there wasn't any
whitespace after the backslash.  There was whitespace at the beginning of
the continuation line, though, which I removed.)  I joined the lines into
one long line, removed the whitespace, and ran sendbatch.  Same problem.
It appears that ihave/sendme is otherwise working OK, with just this single
annoyance.

Now the affected lines look like:

turnkey:all,!bull,!ladc,!alt.sex,!alt.drugs,!talk/all,!sendme,!ihave:I:turnkey.ihave/togo
turnkey-send-ids:to.turnkey/ihave:I:turnkey.sendme/togo
turnkey-ctl:to.turnkey/all,!sendme,!ihave:f:turnkey/togo
turnkey-real:to.turnkey/sendme:f:turnkey/togo

The batchparms file is unchanged.
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Frank Mayhar  fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (..!{uunet,hacgate}!ladcgw!fmayhar)
              Bull HN Information Systems Inc.  Los Angeles Development Center
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