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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: problem with 2.11 - sys file broken (maps distribution)
Message-ID: <21063@styx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 00:38:52 EST
Article-I.D.: styx.21063
Posted: Tue Dec  9 00:38:52 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 21:30:08 EST
References: <482@enmasse.UUCP> <298@bms-at.UUCP> <1910@ptsfa.UUCP>
Reply-To: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore CA
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Keywords: News 2.11 maps mod.map sys

In article <1910@ptsfa.UUCP> dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St.Pierre) writes:
> In article <298@bms-at.UUCP> stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
> >
> >maps:world,mod.map:F:/usr/spool/maps/mod.map/Batch
> >
> >Now, while this change may seem stupid at first, there is a logical
> >reason for it (I think).  The intent it to make all articles have
> >a distribution.  Before, there was no way to screen articles with
> >no 'distribution' field.
> 
> Fine, let's have an article with no distribution default to "world".
> But how about having a sys line with NO distribution default to ALL?

I may be particularly obtuse tonight, but doesn't the above sys line
distribute ALL articles with "Distribution: world" (or, indeed, with
no Distribution: header) to "maps", and thus feed them to the map
unpacker? Is this wise?

Michael C. Berch
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