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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: unbatching problems/lost news
Message-ID: <2527@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 02:08:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 02:08:05 1987
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rabbit@psivax.UUCP (Joe Kwan) wrote:
> sdcrdcf:world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,net,mod, \
> na,usa,ca,la,alt,to.sdcrdcf:F:/usr/spool/batch/sdcrdcf
> 
> That should send *everything* we get from one of those sites to the
> other two sites (right?).

Wrong, the problem is the space at the end of the first line.  The
netnews code is way too intolerant of spaces for my taste.  Both of the
articles you showed as not routing properly had "Distribution: na".
The sys file lists "...,mod, na,usa,..." and the space causes "na"
articles to not match the sys file line.
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