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From: mcneill@eplrx7.uucp (Keith McNeill)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Cnews mailpaths bug or feature
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Date: 6 Feb 90 16:08:05 GMT
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I have recently started gatewaying mailing lists to local newsgroups.  I use
the mailpaths file to direct postings to the mailinglist-turned-newsgroups
to the correct place (i.e. if I post to mailinglist.sun-nets the news
software mails the posting off to the sun-nets mail exploder out there in
internetland). These groups are listed as moderated in the active file.

In BNEWS I thought that you could specify an address in the mailpaths
file...sorta like this...

mailinglist.sun-nets	sun-nets@somewhere.edu


CNEWS doesn't seem to like this and insists on having a "%s" on the line
like:

mailinglist.sun-nets	%s

I fixed this by adding an ugly alias to my /usr/lib/aliases file.  

Is this a bug or feature?

Thanks,

Keith

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