Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!wisner
From: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Another rash of empty files with long names...
Message-ID: <8536@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 88 20:37:36 GMT
References: <483@minya.UUCP> <605@jclyde.UUCP>
Reply-To: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <605@jclyde.UUCP> usenet@jclyde.UUCP (Usenet control) writes:
>Looks to me like you have SPOOLNEWS defined in the defs.h of your news
>source.  This directs rnews to spool all incoming to news to .rnews to be
>unspooled at a later date by rnews -U [...]

The presence of those files with the wonderful untypable names doesn't
necessarily mean SPOOLNEWS is defined; if rnews decides that expire is
running it will spool news in identical fashion. expire automatically
calls rnews -U at the end of a run.

..b