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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Anybody seen this bug?
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Date: 12 Feb 89 19:39:40 GMT
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I'm having a wierd problem with my news stuff. I'm running B 2.11,
patchlevel 14.  I've got Microport's V/386 3.0e and am using Jon
Zeef's dbz routines.

I've set up a number of entries in my sys file to send things off to
various places. However, things sent to fl.maps (and apparently ONLY
to fl.maps) also get sent to some of these places.  Here is my sys
file, with the lines folded (they are not like this in the file):

twwells:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,\
	to.twwells,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,unix-pc,alt:U:
novavax:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,\
	to,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,unix-pc,alt:U:
comparc:local,world,comp.archives:U:\
	/usr/home/comparc/bin/comparcupd /usr/home/comparc/db
maps:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.mail.maps:U:\
	/usr/home/mail/bin/savemap
tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.ai.digest:U:\
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.ai.digest proxftl!tomh
tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.ai.neural-nets:U:\
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.ai.neural-nets proxftl!tomh
tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.theory.cell-automata:U:\
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.theory.cell-automata proxftl!tomh
tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.theory.dynamic-sys:U:\
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.theory.dynamic-sys proxftl!tomh
tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.theory.self-org-sys:U:\
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.theory.self-org-sys proxftl!tomh
tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.theory:U:
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.theory proxftl!tomh

The bogus entries are going to maps and to the first tomh entry (the
one for comp.ai.digest). Typical log entries look something like this
(also folded):

Feb 11 17:58    novavax received <990@novavax.UUCP>
			ng fl.map subj 'map for aaahq01'
			from map-request@novavax (UUCP Mapping Project)
Feb 11 17:58    novavax <990@novavax.UUCP> sent to maps, tomh

Feb 11 18:07    novavax received <1000@novavax.UUCP>
			ng fl.announce,fl.map,fl.mail
			subj 'd.* files are being phased out'
			from mikel@novavax.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
Feb 11 18:07    novavax <1000@novavax.UUCP> sent to maps, tomh

Now, before I go digging out my debugger, has anyone heard of this or
a related problem?

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A trivial question (I hope): In

tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.theory.self-org-sys:U:\
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.theory.self-org-sys proxftl!tomh
tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.theory:U:
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.theory proxftl!tomh

the second line matches everything that the first lines does, right?
And, the only reason tomh doesn't see duplicates is that they both
have the system name tomh, right? This, of course, causes some wasted
processing; would the correct way to eliminate this be to replace the
last line with something like:

tomh:world,inet,net,mod,fl,na,usa,comp.theory,!comp.theory.all:U:
	/usr/bin/mail -s comp.theory proxftl!tomh

? (BTW, I'm not worried about CPU time, but disk accesses.  I've a
vastly overpowered CPU compared to my disk.)

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Bill
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