Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: I need help with a relaynews problem... Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 17:12:45 GMT References: <365@camdev.comm.mot.com?> <1991Feb19.214903.22845@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 33 > sscott@camdev.comm.mot.com (Steve Scott) writes: >> While on a related subject: how do I set up my sys file so that only >> articles that have been posted will be batched up for nntpsend'ing to >> my nntp server? ... henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > Use the L flag; see man/news.5. Personally, I think the L flag should be avoided whenever possible, it's too easy to get burned by it. It works fine in the case described, but: 1) When you get a downstream feed, you won't pass on the articles posted at the downstream site until you change the L to an L2; 2) When you do this, you'll find yourself passing things posted at your server site back to the server again; 3) When your downstream feed site gets themselves a downstream feed site, you'll need to change L2 to L3, then you'll start feeding everything posted at all your server's immediate neighbors back to the server.... Anyway, using a / in the first field of the sys file entry is much better at things like this. It works whether you have more than one server, or whether the name for the server in your sys file entry is different from the name the server puts in the Path: header for itself. server1/server1.domain,server2:.../all,!local:f server2/server1.domain:.../all,!local:f --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz