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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: problem with 2.11 - sys file broken (maps distribution)
Message-ID: <722@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 13:51:50 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.722
Posted: Sat Dec 13 13:51:50 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 23:32:26 EST
References: <482@enmasse.UUCP> <298@bms-at.UUCP> <1910@ptsfa.UUCP> <21063@styx.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Summary: Why you need "world" in your sys file

In article <21063@styx.UUCP> mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) writes:
>> >maps:world,mod.map:F:/usr/spool/maps/mod.map/Batch
>
>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?

No, it does the right thing: for an article to be passed on to a
"site" named on a sys file line, it must pass two checks, one based
on the Newsgroups: line and one based on the Distribution: line.  In
2.11, any article without a Distribution: line is treated as if it
had Distribution: world.  In older news, for an article without a
distribution line, only the newsgroup was checked.  It's not clear to
me that the change gains us anything, but it's there.


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