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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: moderated groups and mailpaths
Message-ID: <2517@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 23 Feb 90 11:15:40 GMT
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In article <1990Feb22.183838.16232@uu.psi.com> fedor@uu.psi.com
(Mark S. Fedor) writes:

   | 	My mailpaths file is totally empty and I know that
   | 	my active file has certain moderated newsgroups
   | 	marked as unmoderated.

   | 	Where can I get the latest and greatest mailpaths info
   | 	and also a latest list of moderated groups.

Oh now!!! You don't need it; you won't want it either...

The mailpaths file is maintained at the large backbone sites: they
know all about the latest aliases for the moderated groups. *Your*
mailpaths files should only contain two lines (assuming you're
running B news 2.11.x):

	one line containing the word "internet" and a "printf" like path
	to the nearest machine that understands Internet email addresses.

	one line containing the word "backbone" also followed by a "printf"
	like path to your nearest backbone site that maintains a full list
	of aliases.

This is what I have: we understand Internet mail address ourselves and our
nearest backbone is "hp4nl.nluug.nl". So it becomes:

		backbone	%s@hp4nl.nluug.nl
		internet	%s



			good luck,
						--[ Edwin ]--
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