Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: sys file entries for CNEWS
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 10:04:21 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.100421.5727@looking.on.ca>
References: <449@skyking.UUCP> <1991Mar23.193554.25944@looking.on.ca> <AD}=J-%@rpi.edu> <27EF7E26.40AD@tct.uucp>

Somebody else mailed me something that suggested the right solution to this.


A) Scrap "all" from the distribution field, except perhaps the "ME" field.

B) Maintain the sys file in a macro language (M4, cpp, sed scripts, whatever)
and edit the source.

In your source define distribution macros like, "thistown", "thiscompany"
etc.

Use those macros in your distribution list, and even in newsgroup lists.

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At least if you still want to feed with sys files.
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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473