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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Need help mailing from sys file
Message-ID: <1521@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 07:39:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 07:39:59 1987
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References: <453@foxvax5.UUCP>
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: you need "world" in each line of your sys file

In article <453@foxvax5.UUCP> dbr@foxvax5.UUCP (D.B. Robinson (Douglas)) writes:
>
>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

I'm posting this as well as sending mail because others converting
to 2.11 should be reminded of the problem.  It's in the documentation
but can be overlooked.

Try
hammer:world,rec.ham-radio::/usr/ucb/Mail -s "ham radio" foxvax5!user

In general, every regular sys line should have "world" in it.
Articles with no explicit distribution are assumed to be
"Distribution: world".  This change is part of distinguishing
newsgroups (comp,soc,rec, etc.) from distributions (world and others).
Since there is no "world" newsgroup, putting "world" into the sys
line shouldn't get you any extra groups, and no ",!world.all" is needed.

Your test of to.foxvax5 probably had a Distribution: to in it,
courtesy postnews, which is why it came through.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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