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From: asleeman@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: my NEWS.DISTRIBUTION seems to be ignored, Help me please!!!
Message-ID: <145.25dacc2f@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 15 Feb 90 05:22:24 GMT
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Hi,

Does ANU-NEWS make use of the NEWS.DISRIBUTION file. My problem is that 
all ANU-NEWS insists on trying sending every article it sees to every 
hosts it knows about even if that host is already in the articles path.

My my NEWS.DISRIBUTION file looks like :
peace                    kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz
kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz    peace

"peace" is a machine that is currently not receiving news so it NEWS.SYS
entry has no newsgroup in its list. Thus NEWS.SYS looks like :

virtue:world,inet,anu,comp,sci,news,rec,misc,local,junk,control::

peace::N:news_manager_dev/[ihave_peace]collect.ids

comp.vuw.ac.nz:world,inet,anu,comp,sci,news,rec,misc,local,junk,control:N:\
news_manager_dev/[ihave_kaukau]collect.ids

What is going wrong? Help me please !!!

Andrew Sleeman
asleeman@wai[A