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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: posting to moderated local groups
Message-ID: <44057@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 12:58:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: beno.44057
Posted: Wed Aug 12 12:58:43 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Aug-87 06:44:17 EDT
References: <1174@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
Lines: 21
Summary: right idea, wrong order

In article <1174@pinney.munsell.UUCP>, pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) writes:
> This is what our mailpaths file looks like (to.munsell.m is a
> moderated group):
> 
> backbone        adelie!harvard!seismo!%s
> internet        adelie!%s
> to.munsell.m    munsell!usenet
> 
> I tried replacing the .'s with -'s but that did not help.  Postings
> are still queued for ..!seismo!to-munsell-m.  (They do not leave the
> site, I stop them.)

The '.' should be replaced with '-'. However, the problem is that
inews is scanning forward looking for the FIRST match. Since "backbone"
is a wild card that matches anything it will never scan place that.

If you put the line:
	to-munsell-m	munsell!usenet
BEFORE the line containing "backbone", it will match that one first.

---rick