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From: rsalz@papaya.bbn.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Leakage of news articles.
Message-ID: <179@papaya.bbn.com>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 23:32:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 23:32:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 08:43:33 EDT
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Reply-To: rsalz@bbn.com (Richard Salz)
Organization: BBN Laboratories, Cambridge MA
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In news.admin (<192@hemaneh.uucp>), tj@hemaneh.UUCP (Cal Thixton  Sun-Central Area MTS) writes:
>Here is a list of the news groups that my site has been asked to create
>as texsun is a news/notes gateway for the Dallas area...
>... I suspect that this is the cross posting
>bug...
>Newsgroup/Notesfile: alt.test
>Newsgroup/Notesfile: amdahl.general
>Newsgroup/Notesfile: athena.forsale
>Newsgroup/Notesfile: att.emacs
>Newsgroup/Notesfile: att.general
>...
That's not a bug, it's the documented behavior of 2.11 news that unknown
newsgroups are NOT stripped from the newsgroup line.  This was debated
here some months ago.

You should get a copy of some patches I posted to news.software.notes
several months ago that all but completely rewrite newsinput.  The biggest
feature is that all groups are checked against the news/active file before
a new notesfile is created.

Sorry, I can't send you the patches; they were done while I was at Mirror
Systems, and at BBN I no longer care about notes (well, it has a warm
place in my heart ;-).  If you post a query in n.s.n I'm sure someone will
respond -- I know my code was picked up and improved by one or two
others.
	/r$
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