Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: local checkgroups escapes
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.162626.13875@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct10.142157.6445@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 16:26:26 GMT

In article <1990Oct10.142157.6445@m2xenix.psg.com> news@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush) writes:
>I make up my own checkgroups control message by combining spaf's normal,
>spaf's alt, and my list of locals.  I clean up the header at the top making
>sure Distribution: is local.  I run it into inews -h.

As we have pointed out before, "local" is not a magic word to C News.
If you don't want "local" sent to your neighbors, the distribution subfield
of the entries in your sys file must say (e.g.) "all,!local", not just "all".
-- 
"...the i860 is a wonderful source     | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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