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From: cyrill@scicom.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Strange Control Message!
Message-ID: <915@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 23:01:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: scicom.915
Posted: Mon Jun  8 23:01:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 02:08:15 EDT
References: <220@cjsa.UUCP>
Reply-To: cyrill@scicom.UUCP (Cyro Lord)
Organization: Alpha Communications Development Corp.
Lines: 18
Keywords: inews

>I received the following strange mail notification from uucp - apparently
>in response to a control message sent to our machine.  Did others receive
>the same message, indicating that the control message was posted incorrectly
>or do we have a local problem at our site?  We are running  news 2.11
>patchlevel 8. (This is the first time something like this has happened here.)

>	news.announce.conferences Calls for papers and conference announcements.
				 ^
This space must be a tab even through it's only one space. and you must make
sure that moderated is spelled out. It could be either of these will cause
problems. The space problem will not allow /usr/lib/news/checkgroup to strip
the text part past the ^ from the news group name, which would give the message
you received. Not spelling uout Moderated could give you errors also. (Not sure
about this.)  Remember, for newsgroups text, Spaces should be tabs

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Cyro Lord	Alpha Comm. Dev. Corp.  2570 Sky Ranch Rd. Aurora, CO. 80011
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