Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: help with sys file
Message-ID: <1991May19.023101.29200@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 02:31:01 GMT
References: <1991May19.014130.25630@unixland.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May19.014130.25630@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>-----------
>ME:all
>
>downstream:to.downstream,news.announce,fido,alt.kids-talk,alt.msdos.programmer,\
>comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.c,comp.org.eff,\
>comp.os.msdos.programmer,rec.games.frp,rec.mag.otherrealms:f:
>
>mainfeed/mainfeed.com:all,!fido/all,!to.downstream,!local/all:L:
>------------

We have three separate misunderstandings here.  First, you need a "/all" on
the end of the second field in the "downstream" line.  Second, there can
be only one slash in that field; your "mainfeed" line is nonsense.  Third,
"local" is not a magic word to C News.

Please read news(5) instead of trying to wing it.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry