ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (09/26/84)
A while back I posted some changes to the "broadcast" function in
2.10.1's "ifuncs.c". They were designed to avoid having your system forward
articles with headers including lines like
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Distribution: net
to systems that didn't want "net.jokes" articles and were just throwing them out
(generating diagnostic letters to you in the process).
Now 2.10.2 news is with us. Its "postnews" puts "Distribution:" lines in ALL
articles, a la:
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Distribution: net
If you're passing news to a site that only wants some articles--one with a
"/usr/lib/news/sys" line like:
neighbor:net.unix,net.unix-wizards,net.news.b:U
for example--and you've made the changes below, then 2.10.2 articles won't get
forwarded.
So...if you put in the changes, I'd recommend taking them out. You'll
start getting those nasty computer-generated letters again--
at least until you convert to 2.10.2.
--
broadcast()
{
register char *nptr, *hptr;
register FILE *fp;
#ifndef u370
struct srec srec;
struct hbuf h;
#endif
/* h is a local copy of the header we can scribble on */
fp = xfopen(ARTICLE, "r");
if (hread(&h, fp, TRUE) == NULL)
xerror("Cannot reread article");
fclose(fp);
if (h.distribution[0])
> #ifdef OLDVERSION
> strcpy(h.nbuf, h.distribution);
> #else
> ngcat(h.distribution);
> #endif
.
.
.
while (*hptr != '\0') {
if (strncmp(srec.s_name, hptr, SNLN) == 0)
goto contin;
while (*hptr++ != '\0')
;
}
> #ifndef OLDVERSION
> if (h.distribution[0] && !ngmatch(h.distribution, srec.s_nbuf))
> continue;
> #endif
if (ngmatch(h.nbuf, srec.s_nbuf)) {
transmit(&srec, xfopen(ARTICLE, "r"), 1);
}
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