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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Be sure you have the "control" newsgroup in your "sys" file.
Message-ID: <2344@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Jul-86 14:41:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 26 14:41:59 1986
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Sorry, but that's not how it works.  You can add "control" to your
sys file if you want, but it won't make any difference.  A properly
posted control message is posted to some real group stem, not to
"control".  The rebroadcast of the message is determined by the
Newsgroups and Distribution line, not by whether it's a control
message or not.  The only time "control" acts like a newsgroup is
for purposes of local storage in /usr/spool/news/control, and that's
only so readers don't have to see control messages.

I don't know why Mikel's message failed, but one possibility is that
he had "Newsgroups: control" in the headers.  I would not expect that
to work.  I'm not going to post instructions for doing it here, since
I don't want to see thousands of sendsys's going around the net (they
are expensive) but if you have some legitimate need for one, and you
can't figure it out on your own, send me mail.

	Mark