Xref: utzoo news.software.nn:1923 news.software.b:7627 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) Newsgroups: news.software.nn,news.software.b Subject: Re: problem with default distribution of a followup. Message-ID: <1991May01.081237.12138@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> Date: 1 May 91 08:12:37 GMT References: Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa Lines: 42 [Added news.software.b to the Newsgroups, since this is about C News as well as nn. --apb] In article , ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod) writes: > I have the following parameters set in my ~.nn/init file: > > set default-distribution local > set follow-distribution ask same default > > However, when posting a follow up to an article with 'world' > distribution, the distribution reverts to 'local'. > > I am using 'cnews' as the mail transport, and suspect the problem > is due to 'cnews' zapping the Distribution: header entirely if > it is 'world'. I don't think C News does that. C News's inews will delete a 'Distribution: world' header from a local posting, but nothing in C News modifies distribution headers of incoming articles. There is some code in C News's relaynews program that treats an article without a Distribution as if it had 'Distribution: world', but I think this is used only to check which sys file lines match. > Is there some obvious workaround to change this behaviour? Or is > it a case of my misunderstanding something? nn thinks that the Distribution: header is mandatory, while C News knows that it is optional. If you could tell nn to set follow-distribution ask same "world" then I think you would get what you want (followups to messages that don't have a Distribution: header get sent to Distribution: world) -- but I don't think you can make nn do that. You might have to 'set default-distribution world' to get the followups to work right, and educate your users to use appropriate distributions on new (non-followup) articles. --apb Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za Bang: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett