Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu 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 Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2527 Posted: Mon Jul 27 02:08:05 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 01:02:17 EDT References: <1748@psivax.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 15 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. -- {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@postgres.berkeley.edu Alt.all: the alternative radio of the Usenet.