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From: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: postnews throwing messages away
Message-ID: <1305@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Nov-86 00:01:26 EST
Article-I.D.: bunker.1305
Posted: Wed Nov 12 00:01:26 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Nov-86 21:40:01 EST
References: <541@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct
Lines: 29


In article <541@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>I just spent fifteen minutes composing a posting for net.unix-wizards.
>I ran postnews, answered all its questions, and it dropped me into
>emacs for composition.  A while later, I saved and exited.  Postnews (I
>assume it was postnews) then printed
>
>Not sending to any newsgroups - no message posted
>
>and THREW AWAY THE POSTING TEMPORARY FILE!  No mail to me, no mail to
>usenet, no dead.* files in my home directory, presumably no posting to
>net.unix-wizards, nothing! 


It appears that you edited or removed the "Newsgroup" line in the
article -- thus postnews had no place to post your article.  It's
very easy to change the code to save your article.  Just add the following
lines to "postnews.c" immediately after the label "nogroups:" (this is
in 2.11 anyway).


	sprintf(ccname, "%s/dead.article", homedir);
	printf("Article being saved in %s\n", ccname);
	save_article();

				Bill McGarry
				Bunker Ramo, Trumbull, CT

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