[net.news.b] Forwarding old articles to new sites

caf (12/22/82)

Atricles can be forwarded to a newly connected net neighbor by one of
two methods (only the first checked).

1.  send all the articles to a temporary directory on the new system
(better yet, send a tar archive ...).  On the new system, just do
for i in *
do rnews<$i
done
This works fine except a) return path is wrong b) the sys file must be
changed so these articles aren't sent back to the rest of the net
(if you forget B, you'll have to zap /usr/spool/uucp!)

Another possibility would be to temporarily change the sys file on the
old system so articles are sent to ONLY to the new system, then
do the same sort of shell script.

I know the first method works with 2.9 bnews - that's how we got the
old fa.editor-p articles over here.
	Chuck Forsberg