heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) (03/28/91)
I'm running B News 2.11 patch level 19. Today, I noticed in the logs of my Smail 3.1 UUCP map extraction run that it had failed to extract the UUCP map from an article which appeared in misc.forsale! Thinking that it was rather odd that it would even be trying to find a UUCP map in a misc.forsale article, I did a little digging. I found in my LIB/log file from yesterday that the article had come in and had been queued up for *every* system in my LIB/sys file! That included all of the pseudo-systems, like this one: # uucp map unpacking MAP:world,na,usa,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch Now, it seems to me that the only news articles that should end up being "batched" for this entry are those that appear on my system in the group comp.mail.maps. This article did not. Here is the header (indented a space) from the article in question. Anyone have any ideas on what's going on here? Thanks. Ron. Path: mcdchg!laidbak!ism.isc.com!ispd-newsserver!rpi! zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu! cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!gld From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) Newsgroups: misc.forsale,na.forsale,ny.forsale Subject: Technics 420 CD player, swap for NAD or Denon receiver Message-ID: <1991Mar27.211428.1190@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 21:14:28 GMT Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) Distribution: na Organization: Curious Goods (formerly Louis Vendredi Antiques) Lines: 17 Xref: mcdchg misc.forsale:30136 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu -- Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod "Wrong is wrong, even when it helps you." Popeye
jerry@olivey.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Jerry Aguirre) (03/29/91)
In article <59372@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes: > ># uucp map unpacking >MAP:world,na,usa,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch > > Newsgroups: misc.forsale,na.forsale,ny.forsale Your sys/MAP entry say to send articles in the newsgroup na which implicitly means na.all which includes na.forsale which is one of the newsgroups. This is another example of the confusion of newsgroups and distribtuions. You could recode your entry as: # uucp map unpacking MAP:world,!world.all,na,!na.all,usa,!usa.all,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch so that the distributions would not match random groups under the distributions. My understanding is that under C news one can enter this as: # uucp map unpacking MAP:comp.mail.maps/world,na,usa:F:/usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch And it matches the newsgroups and distributions separately. I am not aware of map entries being sent out with other than world distribution though I suppose it could happen some day. I suspect most sites use just: # uucp map unpacking MAP:world,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch Jerry Aguirre