Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Subject: postnews stupidity about "sources" newsgroups
Date: Mon, 11-Jan-88 15:14:53 EST
Message-ID: <1988Jan11.151454.25282@lsuc.uucp>
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto

I just posted an article to {comp.mail.misc,comp.sources.d}
about some hacks I have to BSD Mail.  I used postnews, since
it's faster than Pnews and I wasn't starting from inside rn.

After I finished composing the article, postnews told me
that my posting looked kind of small for source, and asked
me to confirm the posting.  I did.  Then it spat the posting
back at me because "source should not be cross-posted".

I saved the article to a /tmp file and used Pnews.

Perhaps postnews should be told that comp.sources.d is
NOT for source postings?

David Sherman
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