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Subject: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 18:21:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 18:21:52 1987
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Bob Weissman asks:
> Will the mythical C news distinguish between distributions and top-level
> newsgroup names?

C rnews will indeed support a new sys file field for distributions.  If
this field is missing, rnews will use the contents of the newsgroup
pattern field (`subscription list') as the distribution list.  (I was
mildly surprised that B2.11 didn't include a distribution field, as
Rick is aware of the problem.)

C news isn't mythical, just slow to be released.  It really is running
on utstat and utzoo (and at certain alpha test sites), but Henry and I
aren't getting paid to write news software, so C news is necessarily
getting done in our copious spare time.
-- 
Geoff Collyer	utzoo!utstat!geoff, utstat.toronto.{edu,cdn}!geoff