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From: murrey@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Erik Murrey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: news pl 17 / bad newsgroups problem
Message-ID: <558@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 89 21:10:23 GMT
Reply-To: murrey@csee.Lehigh.EDU (Erik Murrey)
Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
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B News 2.11 Patchlevel 17

Has anyone come up with a patch that prevents rnews from dumping its
bad articles in /usr/spool/news/.bad when it already places them
in junk?

Right now, if inews -U spawns rnews, which returns "256" when it cannot
find a valid newsgroup, it places the article in junk.  Since rnews
returns with a non-zero exit-status, inews -U also places the bad news
batch in /usr/spool/news/.bad!

I'll fix it, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.

... Erik
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Erik Murrey
Lehigh University
murrey@csee.Lehigh.EDU
erik@mpx.com