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From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Anybody seen this bug?
Message-ID: <7360@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 89 22:51:45 GMT
References: <376@twwells.uucp>
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In-reply-to: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)

In article <376@twwells.uucp>, bill@twwells (T. William Wells) writes:
|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.

[description of problem -- see original article]

The cause of this arises from the fact that newsgroup
names/hierarchies and regional distribution names have no distinction
in the news software.  I.e., naming 'fl' as a distribution implied to
the news software that you mean to send all news for fl.all to the
sites containing that entry in your sys file.  It is smart enough to
know that it should send it to each site only once, however, so it
only sends it to the first one in the sys file.  All other
distributions you listed have no top-level hierarchy counterparts, so
they never caused any problems.  A solution is to change 'fl' in the
tomh entries to 'fl,!fl.all' (I haven't tested this, so it may be a
little bit different, but this is the general idea).

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Dept of Info and Comp Sci
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