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From: dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St.Pierre)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: problem with 2.11 - sys file broken
Message-ID: <1910@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 21:48:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 21:48:17 1986
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In article <298@bms-at.UUCP> stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
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>maps:world,mod.map:F:/usr/spool/maps/mod.map/Batch
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>Now, while this change may seem stupid at first, there is a logical
>reason for it (I think).  The intent it to make all articles have
>a distribution.  Before, there was no way to screen articles with
>no 'distribution' field.

Fine, let's have an article with no distribution default to "world".
But how about having a sys line with NO distribution default to ALL?

When Mark first posted the "warning" several months ago, it was slanted
towards replacing "net" with a whole lot of things. And yes, I installed
2.11 without reading the Installation instructions - I've installed about
5 versions of netnews and thought that this would be relatively painless
(it was). I changed my sys file to reflact what I thought was the intent
of Mark's posting.

Well, enough grousing. Hopefully patch #2 will provide heuristics which
will make sense to new people installing the software and not just the
"old hands".

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