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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names
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Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 02:46:25 EDT
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In article <1094@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>So what am I going to do about it?  Nothing!  Eunice news sites have
>two options: define SPOOLDIR to be /spool/news or something like
>that, or use an alias (comp.sys.ibm-pc.digest is probably best).

NOTE: if you use the "alias" approach, be sure that your site is only a
"leaf" node of the network (that is, you only have one netnews
neighbor), so that this change does not propagate out onto the
network.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu