larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (12/29/90)
how does a site running cnews request the
sys file of another site?
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In article <1990Dec29.140416.871@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >how does a site running cnews request the >sys file of another site? Same way a site running B News does it: send that site a "sendsys" control message. There is no pre-canned way to do this. If trying it, be very careful that you use a newsgroup/distribution combination that restricts the transmission of the control message to the site you want! (There may not be such a combination, unfortunately.) -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry