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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Anybody seen this bug?
Message-ID: <386@twwells.uucp>
Date: 16 Feb 89 04:28:33 GMT
References: <376@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <376@twwells.uucp> I wrote:
: 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.

Well, as the saying goes: That's not a bug, that's a feature!

To the curious out there: the "bug" is caused by inews not
distinguishing between distributions and newsgroups.

SO, when something gets posted to fl.whatever, it also goes to any sys
line wherever there is a distribution of "fl". The fix is also
simple; add !fl.all to the lines where the "fl" is a distribution
instead of a newsgroup, or remove the fl distribution from the sys
lines that don't need it.

I'm also feeling a little red-faced about this: now that it has been
pointed out to me, I remember a discussion of just this point only a
few months ago....

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Bill
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