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From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Subject: Re: how to *really* get manual newgroup notification in C news
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
References: <1990Aug26.203720.2157@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 90 22:25:42 GMT
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In <1990Aug26.203720.2157@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu
(Bill Wisner):

   OK, so I blew it. My newgroup hackery was committed while under the
   influence of sleep deprivation, and I made a couple of stupid little
   mistakes. Blah. Here's the right version. (Thanks, tale.)

Mea culpa, but I blew it too.  $afile is never created, it is just the
prefix used for tear.  I still had to change these lines:

             cat $afile ) | Mail -s "Make $1 moderated" $NEWSMASTER

             cat $afile ) | Mail -s "Make $1 unmoderated" $NEWSMASTER

     cat $afile ) | Mail -s "Make $1 $2" $NEWSMASTER

from "$afile" to "$afilehdr $afilebody".  Note two other things:

1) I personally prefer to have the whole article there so I can look
at different things in the headers; that's why I changed it long ago
from the default.

2) I use "Mail" rather than "mail" because on my Sun3 server with a
path of /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb the latter does not have a -s switch
for setting the subject and the former does.

Oh, and maybe a third thing.  The last subject might be better as
"Create $1 $2".

Sorry, w.  I should have sent you an update when I noticed my error.
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