joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (12/12/85)
I got the following news message, associated with a sendsys control message: From: news (News Administrator) Date: 11 Dec 85 16:09:59 GMT To: usenet Subject: sendsys control message Responding-System: gould9.UUCP ncr-sd!ncrcae!ncsu!mcnc!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!burl!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akguc!codas!mikel requested your sys file. It has been sent. And I tried to reply and it said no such beast @ codas. (possibly a typo here, though). Who uses these messages? and why? -- Joel West (619) 457-9681 CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA 92037 {cbosgd,ihnp4,pyramid,sdcsvax,ucla-cs}!gould9!joel gould9!joel@nosc.ARPA
spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) (12/13/85)
The "sendsys" control message causes a copy of your news "sys" file to be mailed to the requester. It was included in news a long time ago to (I assume) provide a method of gathering information for mapping. I'm not sure it really serves much purpose anymore and it can probably be removed in future releases of news without anyone missing it. -- Gene "wedding done, thesis to go" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ Relay.CS.NET uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf
reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (12/14/85)
In article <2251@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes: > I'm not sure it [sendsys] really serves much purpose anymore >and it can probably be removed in future releases of news without >anyone missing it. Oh, PLEASE leave sendsys there! It's my major tool for diagnosing connectivity and lost news problems, and it is also the only way we have of finding out who gets what Bay Area newsgroup. I can understand why people would want to limit the use of sendsys somehow, but o, please, keep it in! -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein) (12/17/85)
I assume that one uses this feature by posting to control with subject cmsg sendsys. Is there any way to get info from selected systems rather than everyone within a distribution area? -- The Maxwell R. Mayhem Institute for Quandary Requiem and Maternal Sciamachy Accept no substitutes.
sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber) (12/22/85)
As far as I know (or at least as far as I have used it), you can only get the sendsys from only one machine if that machine is a usenet neighbor and you post the sendsys to the "to.machinename" group. -- Stan uucp:{ihnp4!shell,rice}!neuro1!sob Opinions expressed Olan ARPA:sob@rice.arpa here are ONLY mine & Barber CIS:71565,623 BBS:(713)660-9262 noone else's.