Path: utzoo!utgpu!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!cks From: cks@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Siebenmann) Newsgroups: tor.news Subject: Re: Toronto Distribution Message-ID: <1988Dec13.015433.11297@ziebmef.uucp> Date: 13 Dec 88 06:54:29 GMT References: <176@dptcdc.datapoint.com> Reply-To: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann) Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario Lines: 23 In article <176@dptcdc.datapoint.com> bar@datapoint.com (Brian Ruptash) writes: ... >If I say "world,tor,tor.news.stats", the site gets not only tor.news.stats, >but all tor groups. Personally, I don't see the problem with this; indeed, I suspect tor.news should be side-propagated as well. That only leaves tor.general; fairly harmless for the simpler sys file. >Of course, the problem could be better solved by news distinguishing >between distributions and newsgroups in its sys file format. Fixed in Cnews. Especially if you're a small site, Cnews is great and wonderfull and . It's also a good way to get familiar with sh and your C compiler and make if you aren't already familiar with them. :-) -- "Would that Aza Chorn had teleported Bates elsewhere and not removed so charming and preposterous a folly from our skyline ... but then he could not have known, not being raised around these parts." Chris Siebenmann uunet!utgpu!{ontmoh!moore,ncrcan}!ziebmef!cks cks@ziebmef.UUCP or .....!utgpu!{,ontmoh!,ncrcan!brambo!}cks