Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Cnews strikes again? - Re: newgroup comp.lang.sigplan Message-ID: <1989Aug11.214406.24358@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Aug3.112451.21772@nc386.uucp> <1631@stl.stc.co.uk> <1989Aug10.231323.29146@nc386.uucp> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 21:44:06 GMT In article <1989Aug10.231323.29146@nc386.uucp> allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >... ("mvjunk") which apparently doesn't like C news's >version of the active file... This is a bit surprising, since the C News active file is the same as the B News one, with minor extensions. We too would be curious to know why it broke. >Yes, C news's propensity to post newgroup messages with a default distribution >of "world" is a problem. Fixed in next patch (Monday?). >A worse problem is that many programs expect to say >"inews -C news.group moderated" Uh, "many"? We aren't aware of any. (Undoubtedly there are a few, but we'd be curious to know about any programs that do "inews -C" -- they must post-date the initial 2.11 release, since 2.10 broadcast the creation message like C News.) > but C news requires it to be >"inews -C 'news.group moderated'" -- note the quotes, inews -C reads exactly >one argument. (Yuck.) Well, some people like to conform to things like syntax standards and some don't. We do. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu