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From: pett@socrates.ucsf.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Problem with News 2.11 Patch 6
Message-ID: <10148@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 12:29:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  6 12:29:29 1987
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In article <5374@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>In sys, I have a line starting with:
>
>mit-eddie:world,usa,[...]
>
>I tried changing that to ME, but apparantly that doesn't work, since
>when I posted an article, inews said "cannot find my name "mit-eddie"
>in /usr/local/lib/news/sys".
>

I have experienced exactly the same behavior with ME in the sys file.
I have GENERICPATH set to 'ucsfcgl' and GENERICFROM set to 'cgl.ucsf.edu'
and inews barfs with "cannot find my name 'ucsfcgl' in /usr/local/lib/news/sys".
Can this be fixed in patch #7?

				Eric Pettersen
				pett@cgl.ucsf.edu or ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pett