Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric
From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Separate newsgroup & distribution fields in sys file
Summary: 3.0 does this right
Message-ID: <dPems#33EyJR=eric@snark.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 15:34:26 GMT
References: <1286@wjvax.uucp> <1290@wjvax.uucp> <4092@fluke.com>
Organization: John Dillinger Died For You Society
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In article <4092@fluke.com>, battan@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Battan) writes:
>It may be too late to get 3.0 or C news to make the sys file cleaner
>(I'm not sure what they look like).  If not, this is my plea to change it.

News 3.0 does this right. The newsgroup and distributions are separate
fields in its sys format, and thus implicitly separate namespaces.

I'm still waiting on the NNTP/NFS changes from Erik Fair and Mel Pleasant
before releasing. If I don't get them soon, I'm going to release anyhow.
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      Eric S. Raymond                     (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
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