Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (MU) 9/23/84; site munnari.OZ Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mulga!munnari!kre From: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: net.news.adm Subject: Re: admins-- please READ! Message-ID: <617@munnari.OZ> Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 06:30:13 EST Article-I.D.: munnari.617 Posted: Tue Dec 25 06:30:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Dec-84 04:21:09 EST References: <2107@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz) Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 64 In article <2107@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) writes: | | A related problem is with sites that are passing specific topics to | some other place. This example is WRONG and will not properly forward | all messages: | | ME:net,fa,mod,usa,na,to:: | THEM:net.unix-wizards:: | | The reason this is wrong is that 2.10.2 now requires the "Distribution:" | line in headers of messages being posted. If you send out a message with | the headers: | | Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards | Distribution: net | | your sys file with match the "Newsgroups:" line but it will NOT match | the line for the "Distribution:". Because of this, large numbers of | articles are not being sent when (or where) they should be. This is only true for 2.10.1 (and earlier?) - the example works fine if you are running 2.10.2. 2.10.2 matches the Distribution against the newsgroups, if the Distribution adds no "new information" as in the postulated case, it is ignored. Unfortunately, it doesn't delete the Distribution line (probably it should, I posted a mod which will do almost that at the posting site - see <609@munnari.OZ> in net.news.b or net.sources.bugs). It also not true that 2.10.2 *requires* Distribution lines, it simply supplies them by default, and doesn't let you leave the Distribution empty while you're in the prompting stage of postnews. However, you can easily delete the Distribution line while you're in the editor, 2.10.2 will respect your wishes, and work fine. Chuq continues... | The correct | way of handling this in the sys file is: | | ME:net,fa,mod,usa,na,to:: | THEM:net,net.unix-wizards:: This MUST have been a typo, I'm sure Chuq means ME:net,fa,mod,usa,na,to:: THEM:net,!net.all,net.unix-wizards:: Chuq's version would have you sending everything! | | Please, PLEASE update your sys file! I concur. Please do! An alternative is to install the mod I posted to net.news.b and net.sources.bugs <609@munnari.OZ> which has the effect of updating the 2.10.1 handling of Distribution lines to operate like 2.10.2 does. You will find updating your sys file easier, and quicker, to do, except possibly if you send limited newsgroups to a lot of sites. See my article <616@munnari.OZ> in net.news.b, and the articles it references, for more discussion of this problem. Robert Elz decvax!mulga!kre