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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: suggested enhancement to rn
Message-ID: <504@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 16:21:17 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.504
Posted: Fri Nov 30 16:21:17 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:13:08 EST
References: <319@qantel.UUCP> <609@umn-cs.UUCP> <1502@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Reply-To: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Distribution: net
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

In article <1502@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
>If you can simply get your
>inews to insert header lines of the form:
>
>Xref: YourSiteName NewsgroupName:ArticleNumber NewsgroupName:ArticleNumber...
>
>you are home free. [as far as not seeing the same article in different groups]
>If your site name is missing from the Xref line, or does not agree with
>the site name known by rn, rn will ignore the line.  To discover rn's idea
>of the sitename, type /H.

If you're doing funny things with site names, as we are, be sure to check
this out.  For various reasons our site name (as printed by hostname and
returned by gethostname() on 4.2BSD) is different from our uucp site name.
If yours is too, and you are seeing the same articles in different newsgroups,
check rn's config.h file to see if GETHOSTNAME is #define'd.  It normally
*is* defined by Configure if you're using 4.2BSD.  Remove that line and rn
will then use the name #defined'd as SITENAME.  (Also look at DOUNAME,
WHOAMI, and PHOSTNAME, which define alternate ways to get the host name.
They are used in intrp.c)
-- 

Bill Kelly
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1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706

"Sometimes, Penfold, I wish I was just drawing the cartoons,
 not starring in them."