Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!philapd!jos From: jos@philapd.UUCP (Jos Vos) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Separate newsgroup & distribution fields in sys file Summary: Great! Message-ID: <106@philapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 20 Jun 88 08:12:34 GMT References: <1286@wjvax.uucp> <1290@wjvax.uucp> <4092@fluke.com> Organization: Philips TDS, P.O. Box 245, 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Lines: 22 In article eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >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. Marvelous: after my first (or maybe second... :-) ) look at Netnews I asked several people: does this (distr/group matching) really work this way? Most of them even couldn't give me the answer !?!? Did you include a wildcard, e.g. 'all' for matching distributions? Did you change the wildcard matching for groups? Now 'all' matches really all groups, but 'all' in combination with another token, e.g. comp.all, only matches one token. -- # Jos Vos # Internet jos@philapd.UUCP # # Philips TDS, Dept SSP # # # P.O. Box 245 # UUCP ..!mcvax!philapd!jos # # 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands # Phone +31 55 433181 #