Xref: utzoo news.admin:3305 news.software.b:1583 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Summary: It's done Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 88 16:47:53 GMT References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.berkeley.edu> <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <2457@inco.uucp> <13546@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Benevolent Space Xist Retirement Home Lines: 16 In article <13546@agate.berkeley.edu>, weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu writes: > The first thing that should be changed is that in the default news > configuration, n.a.n should never be expired. Henry stated that > C news allows you to set this up. Eric is pretty fast, so I'm sure > it will be a feature in 3.0. It's done -- all that was required was a trivial one-line change in the default administration file, adding one that reads news.announce.newuser !v,0 local # make this nonvolatile and permanent How's that for service? :-) -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: ..!{uunet,att,rutgers!vu-vlsi}!snark!eric @nets: eric@snark.UUCP Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718