Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NNTPXMIT Problem reading the file of articles to send
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.033009.6415@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 03:30:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.133033.24524@mach2.wlu.ca> <1991Jun5.172321.3359@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun6.030325.1664@uunet.uu.net>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun6.030325.1664@uunet.uu.net> revell@uunet.uu.net (James R Revell Jr) writes:
>} Use the F flag, not the f flag, in your sys-file entries.  See news(5).
>
>Seems odd to remind the author of features in his own code, but I
>believe the n flag is better for nntp links (equivalent of FI in
>bnews).  This is in all the current Cnews' and not just the time-
>warped UUNET version right?

Actually, it's Geoff's code, but that's a detail...  The n flag probably
is better, but I pay as little attention to NNTP as I can get away with,
so I suggested a simple fix I knew about rather than a better one that
I'd have to go digging to confirm.

Yes, n has been in C News for quite a while.
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