bp@nyit.UUCP (Bruce Perens) (12/27/85)
> Is there any way to get info from selected systems rather > than everyone within a distribution area? First, I'd like to suggest than anyone who needs to use the sendsys and senduuname messages be extremely careful to restrict their distribution. Mike's posting caused LOTS of pollution. Don't cause more. If you want to get the routing information from systems that exchange news with your site, post the control message to `to.system-name', where system-name is one of your news neighbors. That's the only way I've ever used this feature. Many of codas!mike's replies have been bounced by systems far from him because the addresses got too long for some mailers to handle. Postmasters on various systems got lots of junk mail because of that. I guess enough material must have gotten through to cause trouble for the systems upstream of codas, as well. Those who need to debug local distributions may have a use for the sendsys and senduuname control messages. All others, Please refer to the USENET map or consult your system manager. Thank You Bruce Perens decvax!philabs!nyit!bp 516-686-7644