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From: perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News Batching Software
Message-ID: <659@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 23:30:35 EST
Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.659
Posted: Mon Mar 16 23:30:35 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Mar-87 06:08:16 EST
References: <2234@meccts.MECC.COM> <635@vu-vlsi.UUCP> <2242@meccts.UUCP> <17859@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry)
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Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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In article <17859@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU
 (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> ...
>  However, since the "pseudo" site name does not match the name of
>any of the leaf sites that you're sending those articles to, anything
>that THEY send to YOU will get sent back to THEM by this system.

   I think this depends on how you deal with the batch files created
for the "pseudo" site.   I am using the MULTICAST news feature, and if
news comes in from site xxx it naturally would not get batched up for
sending to site xxx, but since the "pseudo" site name I have specifies
:all: for it's newsgroups, it does get batched for that site but without
site xxx's name appended.  For example, the following excerpt from the
news log shows a message from devon that get's queued to multi (the pseudo
site):

Mar 16 23:02	devon	received <xxx@devon.UUCP> ng to.devon subj 'test' from rickp@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry)
Mar 16 23:02	devon	<xxx@devon.UUCP> sent to multi

and in our /usr/spool/batchnews/multi file it says:

/usr/spool/news/to/devon/7

   Messages spooled to multi which are actually destined to goto systems
x, y, z would say (in the batchnews/multi file) something like:

/usr/spool/news/newsgroup/123 x y z

   In the way we handle this file, if no system names are specified on
a line then nothing gets sent anywhere.  So even though all sorts of
postings get sent to the "pseudo" system (like stuff posted to local
groups) it is no problem.

   I guess the real problem is that, although MULTICAST is provided
in news 2.11, there is no standard way to deal with it on uucp-
connected systems.

...Rick			..{cbmvax,pyrnj,bpa}!vu-vlsi!perry
			perry@vuvaxcom.bitnet