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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Posting Problems, receiving is fine...
Message-ID: <1227@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 26 Jan 91 03:47:40 GMT
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In article <*|8^+!&@ads.com> awolf@ADS.COM (Andy Wolf) writes:
>I am having problems posting news, but not receiving news.
>We used to have Bnews, but it got trashed, so I built the 
>latest C-news, NNTP, rn, and trn.  I post news and it only
>gets as far as the local machine, no matter what the distribution.
>I must be missing something simple, but I'm not sure what it is.

You went on to say that the sys file is "correct", but to
reiterate, the C news sys file is subtley different from
Bnews, and it's always worth triple checking the sys file
versus the manual page for it.  Especially w.r.t. distribution.
ECI's main machine has been bitten more than once by incredibly
tiny and seemingly unrelated sys file problems.  For example,
a misplaced comma in a sys line buggered up a sys entry several
systems later. (Don't ask me for details, I didn't see it.
Just the result)

Another question, does the log file indicate that the article
was sent or not?
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