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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: lsuc converted to 2.11 news
Message-ID: <1396@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 01:25:59 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1396
Posted: Mon Nov 17 01:25:59 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Nov-86 01:42:26 EST
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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This shouldn't make any difference to anyone except our
immediate neighbours, but just in case, I thought I'd
mention it.

Incidentally, I ran into some problems with the sys file;
I think it's more restrictive than 2.10.2, though I could
be wrong. In particular, a line with

radha:to.radha::/usr/bin/uux - radha!rnews

for example, did NOT work, where I believe it used to.
Problem is, a simple "postnews" with no explicit Distribution
implies Distribution: world rather than Distribution: to
(I think), and therefore a posting to to.radha didn't work
until I changed the sys line to

radha:world,!world.all,to.radha::/usr/bin/uux - radha!rnews

I believe this also means that to pass something other than
a full set of groups to a neighbour, you have to be very
careful. For example, if an article comes into news.admin
with distribution ont (i.e., aimed at Ontario news administrators),
I think you have to be distributing
	ont,!ont.all,news.admin
if you want it passed to another site to which you just want
to feed the news.admin group.

If anyone is clearer about exactly what you do and don't need in
the sys file in 2.11, and whether you really need things like
world,!world.all,talk,!talk.all,comp,!comp.all
etc. etc. in order to reliably pass specific groups only,
I'd appreciate hearing the details.

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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