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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: parallel sys file entries in C News
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.123323.2598@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 28 Aug 90 12:33:23 GMT
Sender: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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It has been pointed out to me that sys file entries like:

	stl:scot/all,!local:f
	stl/ibmpcug:all/all,!local:f

are actually quite a nice way to go, but C News doesn't hack this properly.

The purpose of this is as follows:

	ibmpcug is my main news feed, but its news feed doesn't get scot
	so it takes scot from me, which I get from stl.  Only scot needs
	to be fed back to stl from ibmpcug, but anything that's locally
	generated as well as anything generated from leaf sites connected
	to me get sent to stl anyway, to improve local connectivity.

The problem is that C News treats all sys file entries independently,
so, e.g. a local article posted to scot.test would satisfy BOTH criteria
and be entered TWICE in stl/togo.  B News only queues it once in this
case, I'm told.

Would it cost too much to do a "remove the duplicates" pass once the
"sites togo" list is generated ?  Or is there a better way to do this?
It certainly looks like a nice and "tidy" way to arrange the sys file.
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