Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!bbn!diamond.bbn.com!mlandau
From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: posting to moderated local groups
Message-ID: <7828@slate.BBN.COM>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 10:37:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: slate.7828
Posted: Wed Aug 12 10:37:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 00:48:05 EDT
References: <1174@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Distribution: world
Organization: BBN Laboratories Incorporated, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 29
Summary: put local moderated groups BEFORE the backbone entry in mailpaths

In news.admin (<1174@pinney.munsell.UUCP>), pac@munsell.UUCP () writes:
>How does one construct the mailpaths file so that a local moderated
>group is possible?  The "how to construct a mailpaths" document hints
>that this is possible.

The trick (which may not be documented - I got it my mail from Rick
Adams) is to put entries that describe local newsgroups BEFORE the
backbone entry in mailpaths.  In effect, think of news as scanning
the mailpaths file linearly and stopping at the first match.  The
backbone entry acts as a wildcard to catch anything that makes it
through that far.  Ergo, you need to put local stuff first.  Here's
the mailpaths file from diamond.bbn.com, which works fine (except 
that the backbone entry should probably be changed to UUNET.UU.NET
at this point):

    bbn.bboard      bboard@bbn.com
    bbn.food        food@bbn.com
    bbn.library     library@bbn.com
    bbn.movies      movies@bbn.com
    bbn.dave-barry  dave-barry@bbn.com
    bbn.local-sun   local-sun@bbn.com
    bbn.x-windows   bbn-xwindows@bbn.com
    bbn.4bsd        bbn4bsd@bbn.com
    xport           xport@athena.mit.edu
    backbone        %s@seismo.css.gov
    internet        %s
-- 
 Matt Landau			A rock feels no pain...
 mlandau@bbn.com		    ...and an island never cries.