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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: creating groups
Message-ID: <13806@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 01:51:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 01:51:16 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Nov-86 07:29:49 EST
References: <13792@amdcad.UUCP> <770@ulowell.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <770@ulowell.UUCP> page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) writes:
>>Is there any reason for telling people to use
>>inews when editing the active file is about the same amount of work
>>and less likely to send out unnecessary msgs?
>
>Using inews allows you to forget the news directory layout, edits the
>active file, creates the spool directory and runs as the right user,
>so you don't have to remember to chown things when done editing.

Ah, you don't have to create the spool directory. i/rnews does that
automatically. I leave the active file 666 mode so I don't have to su
to edit it. Sometimes I worry about it but we haven't had any problems
so far. It is true, however, that the format of the active file is
very particular and minor mistakes could cause problems. Inews seems a
bit less fragile.

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