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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: proposed moderators control message
Message-ID: <338@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 16:00:02 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.338
Posted: Thu Nov 21 16:00:02 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 07:21:24 EST
References: <655@neuro1.UUCP> <325@ncr-sd.UUCP> <670@neuro1.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego
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In article <670@neuro1.UUCP> sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber) writes:
>The software I sent to Mark Horton and others notified the NEWSUSR
>that a moderators update has been sent when one is received. If
>INTERNET is defined, the list is automatically updated. If not, the 
>list is saved in a file called update.mod in the NEWSUSR's home directory.
>This allows the NEWSUSR to edit the list as needed to conform to
>what the local mailer can handle. Therefore, what you wanted is indeed
>what is proposed.

Um, sorry, you weren't paying attention; that's \not/ what I proposed.
My mailer doesn't (yet) handle Internet addresses, so I don't have
INTERNET defined.  With me so far?  Saving the file somewhere and sending
a message is OK, but it doesn't get the file installed.  Even though my
mailer doesn't support internet routing, I do have host-to-route tables
and I could easly write a program (actually a shell script) to convert
the addresses into the correct form.  OK?  What I want to be able to do
is to \automaticly/ run that program when the update to the moderators
file comes in and install the result.

So, if INTERNET is #defined, dropping in the file is just fine.  If it is
not defined, there should be the option of specifying a program to be run
to convert the file to the correct format.  If that option is not selected,
saving the file as update.mod in /usr/lib/news (or whatever, but \not/ in
the home directory of NEWSUSR, which happens to be /usr/spool/uucppublic
on this system) is a reasonable default.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA