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From: mark@omepd.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Need help mailing from sys file
Message-ID: <341@omepd>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 23:10:39 EST
Article-I.D.: omepd.341
Posted: Wed Jan 28 23:10:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 03:04:33 EST
References: <453@foxvax5.UUCP> <1521@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@omepd.intel.com (Mark Aitken)
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Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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In article <1521@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>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.  .........
>>				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.
>

Question: if I post to rec.ham-radio with distribution of usa will 
foxvax!dbr receive my message?  If I understand the distribution field
correctly he will not receive it.  It seems as if I need to put in usa,
na, and any other smaller distributions I want him to receive.

Is this so, or am I confused?

mark

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