From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!essick
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Re: net.jokes NOT net.joke - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1116
Posted: Mon Nov 22 09:26:06 1982
Received: Tue Nov 23 04:03:42 1982

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uiucdcs!essick    Nov 22 07:45:00 1982

	Actually, the notesfile alias mechanism is a little more
complex than Jack ``ihlpb!'' Nickles has described.  If I want
``net.joke'' sent to ``net.jokes'' where it belongs, I would insert
a line of the form:
	net.jokes:net.joke
which would map the newsgroup net.joke into the notesfil net.jokes.
When transfering the other way, (notes ->news) a similar translation
takes place, so we have to put a line before the earlier one, making
our table look like:
	net.jokes:net.jokes
	net.jokes:net.joke

This sets up newsgroups net.joke and net.jokes to go to the notesfile
net.jokes. The notesfile net.jokes will go out to the newsgroup 
net.jokes.  You can get even more complex. Say you want anything that
is in the notesfile net.jokes to go to both newsgroups: net.jokes and
net.joke (and you still want the news->notes translations from above).
In this case, make the file look like:
	net.jokes:net.jokes,net.joke
	net.jokes:net.jokes
	net.jokes:net.joke

I can't think of any appropriate examples right now, but the ability
to do this fell out when I did the first two stages.

--Ray Essick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign