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From: cat@tygra.ddmi.com (CAT-TALK Maint. Account)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.software.b,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Bogus .UUCP addresses under SCO
Message-ID: <413@tygra.ddmi.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 15:00:13 GMT
References: <1990Sep30.220547.7205@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
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In article <1990Sep30.220547.7205@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
}I recently exchanged mail with a user down under about his bogus
}.UUCP suffix, instead of the correct .oz.au that he showed in
}his .sig files.
}
}He told me that SCO had shipped only them only binaries for
}bnews, with the .UUCP hardcoded into it.
}

All he has to do is put the line ".oz.au" as the only line in the file
/usr/lib/news/localdomain and make the file world-readable. I too have
the pre-compiled SCO Bnews and thats how I got around it.