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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: sendsys control message
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.040224.6976@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 15 Sep 90 04:02:24 GMT
References: <1779@asuvax.asu.edu> <1990Sep14.151721.28060@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> In article <1779@asuvax.asu.edu> system@asuvax.asu.edu (Marc Lesure) writes:
> >How does one send the 'inews -c sendsys' to only specific sites and not 
> >a complete distribution?
>
> Basically, one doesn't.

But in one common case where all the machines between you and the target
site follow the common convention of using a to.sitename pseudo group for
sending control messages only to particular neighbour sites (especially
common if ihave/sendme is in use) then you can do a Newsgroups:  virtual
bang path to the target site.  For example, from where I'm sat,

	/bin/inews << 'EOM'
	Newsgroups: to.ibmpcug,to.slxsys,to.ukc
	Subject: sendsys
	Control: sendsys

	Thanks folx!
	EOM

will get me the sys file of the UK backbone "ukc", with the side effect that
you'll also get the sys files of the intervening sites.

Warning: This may annoy some news administrators.
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