Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News Admin Questions
Message-ID: <517@becker.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 02:44:46 GMT
References: <348@odi.ODI.COM>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 31

In article <348@odi.ODI.COM> <benson@odi.com> writes:
|1) The 2.11 B documentation does not say much about the appropriate
|choice of newsgroup for control messages. As a lowly leaf
|administrator, ole of the last things I want to do is to propagate a
|control message willy-nilly. A Higher Authority clued me in to the use
|of the newsgroup to.SITENAME. I suggest that this be called out in
|big, friendly, letters. This might reduce the incidence of excaping
|sendsys messages. If someone would tell me the procedure, I might
|manage to produce an improved document.

	Enclosed below is a simple shell script which
	ought to help. It is predicated on the idea
	that the target system accepts the "to" group
	in its sys file. If the "to" distribution is
	included in its unqualified form in the entries
	for other systems mentioned in the sys file of
	the target site, then you'll get returns from
	them as well...

/usr/lib/news/inews -t sendsys -n to.$1.ctl -d to.$1 -c sendsys </dev/null


	By the way, the "usa" distribution in your message
	ought probably to be "world", or at least "na"...

Cheers,
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