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From: liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.questions
Subject: recnews
Message-ID: <261@grian.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 19:55:49 GMT
Reply-To: liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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I have a local mailing list set up to feed mail to a local newsgroup
using recnews as:

	cl-local:"|/usr/lib/news/recnews cps.common"

which is posting the mail to cps.common pretty much as I wanted, but
the articles are posted in a strange order -- nowhere near the original
order in which the mail was written.  I know enough not to expect the
articles to be in the exact order they were written, but they have
always arrived on grian in a pretty reasonable order -- now they almost
seem random.  This makes the newsgroup much more difficult to read
coherently.

I think this is caused by sendmail spawning separate processes for each
recnews and not waiting for one to finish before starting the next so
that swapping, etc, is mixing up the order.  I suppose hacking recnews
to lock out later recnews' until its done would help, but...

Has anyone else out there noticed this?  Does anyone have a fix?

Thanks much for any help!
-- 
		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.com
					elroy!grian!liz@csvax.caltech.edu
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"God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b