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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
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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)
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