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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: ihave/sendme dribbling out to the net
Message-ID: <2044@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 02:27:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.2044
Posted: Mon Aug 10 02:27:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 01:52:11 EDT
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Keywords: xanth ihave sendme
Summary: oh no
Xref: mnetor news.admin:820 news.software.b:748

This is my fault; my apologies to everyone.  Our news partition overflowed,
causing some articles to be lost.  Therefore I sent out sendme's to one of our
neighbors to request that the lost articles be resent, or so I thought.  I
didn't expect the default distribution for ihave/sendme control messages to be
world, so I didn't think to specify a distribution.  In fact everything I
believed about the semantics and syntax of ihave/sendme messages has turned
out to be wrong.

Here's a suggestion: in the next news release let the default distribution
on all control messages (except cancel), be 'local'.  I'm aware that bungling
like mine isn't the norm, but this sort of thing HAS happened before and now I
know how.

Again, sorry for all the bogus messages and any inconvenience caused down the
line.
--
kyle jones

"Geez, it seemed like such a simple thing..."