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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The sys file
Message-ID: <878@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Apr 89 10:49:34 GMT
References: <198951@hrc.UUCP>
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From article <198951@hrc.UUCP>, by dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel):
> 
> I am having trouble completely understanding the following syntax of the sys
> file:
> 
> site1/site2,site3:world,all,!local,!to,to.site1:F:
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> What does this actually do? I have RTFM, and (I'm sorry), I still do not
> completely understand it.

As I understand TFM (yes it's hard, I know :-) this means that when you send
news to other sites, articles would only be sent to "site1" if they had not
already been thru "site2" and "site3" when they made their way to your site
in the first place. Presumably inews checks the Path: of an article for this
information. I think this syntax is used mainly to help prevent your site
receiving duplicate articles if you have multiple newsfeeds.

Andy
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