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From: spaf@gt-karloff.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: moderated newsgroup posting
Message-ID: <13689@gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 07:53:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 07:53:30 1987
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Reply-To: spaf@gt-karloff.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Organization: Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech
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In article <311@micropro.UUCP> mojo@micropro.UUCP (Morris Jones) writes:
>If I'm running 2.11 news, smail 2.3, and have a current path database,
>is there any reason why I can't make mail aliases from the published
>moderators list, and put the line:
>
>backbone	%s
>
>in my mailpaths file?

Well, the only reason not to is that your list might be as much as
2 weeks out of date.  That usually isn't a problem, but sometimes is.
The sites that are listed in the "How to Construct the Mailpaths File"
article get updates by mail within 24 hours of any change to the
list of moderators, and thus their lists are usually right up-to-date.

You probably want to define "internet" as "%s", though, and make sure
that INTERNET is defined in your "defs.h" file.  If you run smail and
2.11, that should provide a big win.
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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