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From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Usenet contacts
Message-ID: <298@kepler.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 15:59:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 15:59:08 1985
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Reply-To: mojo@kepler.UUCP (mojo)
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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In article <10649@ucbvax.ARPA> fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. &) writes:
[regarding standard mailboxes for usenet administrators:
>The standard one is `usenet', unfortunately there are two problems:
>
>	1. people set up shop without reading the documentation all
>		the way (and therefore don't get to that little tidbit).
>
>	2. the majority of mailers on the UUCP/USENET do not support
>		mail aliasing as those of us fortunate enough to have
>		2 or 4 BSD know it.
>

Erik,

Here's a quote from the 2.10.3 "install" document which was my guideline
for setting up the network news at MicroPro (besides your kind 
assistance):

2.2.2.  NEWSUSR [define]

     This is the owner (user name) of inews.  If you  are  a
superuser,  you should probably create a new user id (tradi-
tionally news) and use this id.  If you are not a superuser,
         ^^^^
you  can  use  your  own  user  id.  If you are able to, you
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
should create a mail alias usenet  and  have  mail  to  this
alias  forwarded to you.  This will make it easier for other
sites to find the right person in the presence  of  changing
jobs  and  out  of  date  or  nonexistent  directory  pages.

[end of quote]

That's pretty vague.  I followed the instructions exactly.  I created
the user "news" as the network news superuser.  Since I was not able
to create a mail alias "usenet" I didn't, and ignored the rest of the
paragraph.

If I'd had more knowledge of the net at the time, and wasn't relying
solely on the instructions, I'd have created "usenet" to be the network
news superuser.

Maybe this paragraph should be rewritten.

-- 
Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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