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From: adrian@ru-cs44.UUCP (Adrian Pell)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Why are distributions mandatory in 2.10.2?
Message-ID: <824@ru-cs44.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 11:28:47 EST
Article-I.D.: ru-cs44.824
Posted: Mon Nov 26 11:28:47 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Nov-84 04:07:59 EST
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Reply-To: adrian@ru-cs44.UUCP (Adrian Pell)
Organization: Reading Univ. UK.
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Summary: 

I just got bitten by the distribution feature.

For various historical reasons, our sys line at our feed site (ukc)
specified a number of net.* groups explicitly (with the intention of
reducing the phone bill!).  

Consider now what happens to an incoming article to ukc destined for
one of the groups to which we subscribe.  If it doesn't have a Distribution
line, all is well.  If it does have a Distribution line of 'net',
for example, 2.10.1 inews uses this in preference to the newsgroup
name, and WE DON'T GET THE ARTICLE because there's no 'net' entry
in our sys line.

I've had our sys line changed so that we get all net groups now, but
it's a bit of a heavy hammer to solve the problem.  Any suggestions??

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Adrian Pell		({mcvax,edcaad}!ukc!ru-cs44!adrian)
Computer Science Dept.
University of Reading
UK