Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!chip
From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: rnews problems with junk
Keywords: binaries are junk
Message-ID: <332@vector.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 02:29:54 GMT
Reply-To: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
Lines: 28

I'm having errlog messages like this from time to time:

 inews: No valid newsgroups found, moved to junk
 inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/88053017024b34
 inews: No valid newsgroups found, moved to junk
 inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/88053017024b36

This is because somebody slipped some comp.binaries.whatever drivel to
me, which is blacklisted in both my sys and active files.  I'm running
2.11 patchlevel 8 mongrelized for XENIX.  SPOOLNEWS is enabled.

This junk should be moved to junk.  But, I don't need it saved a second time
as a "failed batch".  I've traced this down to "insert()" in inews.c.  I
want to change the last line from:

    xxit((mode == PROC && filename[0] == '\0') ? 0 :
	    (exitcode < 0 ? 0 : exitcode));

to:

    xxit(0);

I won't make this hack if either somebody can convince me this is wrong, or
comp.binaries.all is nuked.  Any takers?
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