Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!iuvax!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!nc386!allbery From: allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews strikes again? - Re: newgroup comp.lang.sigplan Message-ID: <1989Aug10.231323.29146@nc386.uucp> Date: 10 Aug 89 23:13:23 GMT References: <1989Aug3.112451.21772@nc386.uucp> <1631@stl.stc.co.uk> Reply-To: allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Organization: North Coast Computer Resources, Cleveland, OH Lines: 27 In-reply-to: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) The recent batch of newgroups emanating from nc386 are the result of a program Rich runs every so often ("mvjunk") which apparently doesn't like C news's version of the active file. (Needless to say, he didn't warn me about this program until *after* the damage was done....) Yes, C news's propensity to post newgroup messages with a default distribution of "world" is a problem. A worse problem is that many programs expect to say "inews -C news.group moderated", but C news requires it to be "inews -C 'news.group moderated'" -- note the quotes, inews -C reads exactly one argument. (Yuck.) I hacked together an alternative that talks directly to relaynews and will alter inews if this isn't fixed in the next set of patches. I would, BTW, appreciate input from anyone who knows why "mvjunk" broke; it was non-obvious to me. I believe Rich got it off the net. I *did* go looking through our "control" newsgroup and issue new control messages reverting moderated groups to their original status. If I missed one or more groups, please let me know; although by now I daresay Greg or Spaf has dealt with any stragglers. ++Brandon (semi-official maintainer of news on nc386) -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu "Why do trans-atlantic transfers take so long?" "Electrons don't swim very fast." -john@minster.york.ac.uk and whh@PacBell.COM