Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-vax!mit-eddie!killer!vector!rpp386!pigs!root From: root@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: sendsys Summary: Send the dweeb the bill ... Keywords: sorry Message-ID: <219@pigs.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 22:07:11 GMT References: <1348@wa4mei.UUCP> Organization: Big "D" Oil and Gas Lines: 15 In article <1348@wa4mei.UUCP>, news@wa4mei.UUCP (usenet news id) writes: > Sorry to do this again but the first group got munged up. > There are some fantastic sys files out there and some that > are really messed up. Because of the messed up ones I am > getting replys from all over instead of just Georgia as > the distribution is set for. And guess what, whatever caused the control message to screw up the last time, caused it to screw up this time. The control message which arrived here didn't even have a distribution line, and since you posted it to news.admin, it propagated over the entire planet. Next time someone wants to restrict the distribution, use a restricted newsgroup. Something like ga.general.ctl should work. - John.