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From: dbr@foxvax5.UUCP (D.B. Robinson )
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Need help mailing from sys file
Message-ID: <453@foxvax5.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 15:11:13 EST
Article-I.D.: foxvax5.453
Posted: Mon Jan 19 15:11:13 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Jan-87 19:33:55 EST
Reply-To: dbr@foxvax5.UUCP (D.B. Robinson (Douglas))
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Organization: Foxboro Company, Inc., Foxboro, MA 02035
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Keywords: news2.11, mailing, /usr/lib/news/sys

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Our news feed just changed from news 2.10.2 to 2.11.  We are running
2.10.2, but that should not matter.  We have one user here that used
to get mail from our newsfeed for a newsgroup that we are not allowed
(politically) to get.  The old sys file entry looked like:

hammer:net.ham-radio::/usr/ucb/Mail -s "ham radio" foxvax5!user

Mail ceased arriving when they moved from 2.10.2 to 2.11.  I modified
"net.ham-radio" to be "rec.ham-radio" with no success.  I tried the
following and it DID work:

test1:to.foxvax5::/usr/ucb/Mail -s "does mail get sent" foxvax5!dbr

Now I'm completely baffled and don't have the time right now to start
reading source.  Can anyone out there tell me what the new format is?

We run 4.2BSD on a VAX 11/750 and so does our news feed.

Please send mail since I don't even have time to read news currently!

Douglas Robinson	jobs don't kill programmers, programmers kill jobs
The Foxboro Company
MS 04-3A		cybvax0!foxvax5!dbr
38 Neponset Avenue
Foxboro, MA 02035	617/543-8750