Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Sys file question
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.164909.2812@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb1.112306.3072@daimi.aau.dk> <1991Feb1.164242.29384@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb3.004017.25272@blilly.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 1991 16:49:09 GMT

In article <1991Feb3.004017.25272@blilly.UUCP> bruce@balilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly) writes:
>>No; the distribution subfield of the ME line is ignored, as documented
>>in news(5).
>
>What would happen if one used the system name (``as determined from
>/usr/lib/news/whoami'') rather than "ME"?

The same.  ME is just an abbreviation.
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