Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck 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 Lines: 20 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. -- - Joe Buck {hplabs,ihnp4,sun}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck HASA (A,S) Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California