eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (06/15/88)
In article <4092@fluke.com>, battan@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Battan) writes: >It may be too late to get 3.0 or C news to make the sys file cleaner >(I'm not sure what they look like). If not, this is my plea to change it. News 3.0 does this right. The newsgroup and distributions are separate fields in its sys format, and thus implicitly separate namespaces. I'm still waiting on the NNTP/NFS changes from Erik Fair and Mel Pleasant before releasing. If I don't get them soon, I'm going to release anyhow. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (06/18/88)
> >It may be too late to get 3.0 or C news to make the sys file cleaner > > News 3.0 does this right. The newsgroup and distributions are separate > fields in its sys format, and thus implicitly separate namespaces. The C News crew felt constrained by compatibility, but we too did implement this: if there is a slash (/) in the first field of the sys file, the stuff before it is groups and the stuff after is distributions. Works fine, don't know how we ever lived without it. (It happened long enough ago to be in the alpha release, by the way.) -- Man is the best computer we can | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology put aboard a spacecraft. --Von Braun | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry
jos@philapd.UUCP (Jos Vos) (06/20/88)
In article <dPems#33EyJR=eric@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >In article <4092@fluke.com>, battan@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Battan) writes: >>It may be too late to get 3.0 or C news to make the sys file cleaner >>(I'm not sure what they look like). If not, this is my plea to change it. > >News 3.0 does this right. The newsgroup and distributions are separate >fields in its sys format, and thus implicitly separate namespaces. Marvelous: after my first (or maybe second... :-) ) look at Netnews I asked several people: does this (distr/group matching) really work this way? Most of them even couldn't give me the answer !?!? Did you include a wildcard, e.g. 'all' for matching distributions? Did you change the wildcard matching for groups? Now 'all' matches really all groups, but 'all' in combination with another token, e.g. comp.all, only matches one token. -- # Jos Vos # Internet jos@philapd.UUCP # # Philips TDS, Dept SSP # # # P.O. Box 245 # UUCP ..!mcvax!philapd!jos # # 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands # Phone +31 55 433181 #