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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Distribution bug?
Message-ID: <2168@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 14:59:04 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2168
Posted: Mon Jan  7 14:59:04 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 05:19:28 EST
References: <2142@Glacier.ARPA>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala)
Distribution: net
Organization: The Warlocks Cave
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Summary: 


 
>My /usr/lib/news/errlog shows this:
>
>Jan  5 07:04	<69@vice.UUCP>	inews: Unknown newsgroup 'tek.general' removed
>Jan  5 07:04	<69@vice.UUCP>	inews: Unknown newsgroup 'or.general' removed
>Jan  5 20:44	<682@pyuxqq.UUCP>	inews: Unknown newsgroup 'nj.wanted' removed
>
>Here are the article headers, each prefixed by its history entry. Note that
>"tek.general", "or.general", and "nj.wanted" are not mentioned anywhere in
>the articles.
>
>2 questions:
>    (1) How did these messages get to Glacier in the first place? Our feed
>at decwrl does not feed us any "tek" , "or", or "nj" groups.
>    (2) Why did not these unusual distributions show up in the article
>itself, but only in the error log?

(1) in releases prior to 2.10.2 inews does not strip unsupported newsgroups
from the headers, so it is possible to see a Newsgroup line such as
"net.wanted,nj.wanted" passed around california (because the existence of
'net' overrides the existence of 'nj' and forces the wider distribution).
Hence, you'll see articles from places such as or, tek, or nj even though
you don't get them directly because they tag along on the net groups.

(2) In release 2.10.2, inews becomes smart enough that any newsgroup it
doesn't know about isn't passed along to the next site, and isn't stored.
Your site is stripping the 'nj.wanted' so the next site doesn't need to
bother with it. By the time you see the article, it has been fixed, so the
only place the bad newsgroup will show up is the error log. When  the sites
upstream of you upgrade and start stripping (or, God forbid, the world
converts to a decent version of news like 2.10.2) you'll stop seeing the
error messages as well.

chuq
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