kdavis@lamc.UUCP (Ken Davis) (03/25/88)
I just got two checkgroup control messages from
alberta!altel!root. The second one specified to remove
all active groups.
I can't find site altel in the maps. Anybody know whats going
on?
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Ken Davis - Letterman Army Medical Center - San Francisco, CA
{ihnp4,lll-crg,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!lamc!kdavis kdavis@optimis-pent.arpawisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) (03/26/88)
altel!root posted his checkgroups messages very sloppily. He attempted to limit distribution, but bungled it. Now, listen up, kids: THERE MUST BE A SPACE BETWEEN THE HEADER FIELD AND THE TEXT OF THE HEADER! For example, our friend at altel should have said: Distribution: altel Instead, he did this: Distribution:altel There is a REASON that every news-related program in existence puts a space after every header field. It is because the news software REQUIRES that space before it will be recognized as a proper header. Lecture done. Take this soapbox outta here, Guido. Everyone else should just ignore the output generated by those checkgroups messages. ..b
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (03/26/88)
wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) wrote:
>THERE MUST BE A SPACE BETWEEN THE HEADER FIELD AND THE TEXT OF THE HEADER!
I hope we can relax this in news 3.0 and/or Cnews. For compatibility
inews would have to massage the headers to add the spaces, but clearly
making humans slaves to the software's inadequacies isn't the way to go.
Time to mung the news source to ignore checkgroups messages...
..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page
"Nicaragua" is Spanish for "Vietnam."lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) (03/26/88)
If you check the headers on the control message you will see:
Distribution:local
They've been notified of the problem. Just another new site coming on
stream :-)
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lyndon {alberta,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon%ncc@uunet.uu.netamos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) (03/26/88)
I also got these; they had a 'Distribution: altel' in the header, so were meant for local distribution only. One problem is how they got out of altel - root@altel should check his sys file(s). But a bigger problem is that once they did, they went everywhere; looks like news 2.11 interpret an unknown distribution as 'none', and since no distribution means 'world', that's where they went! -- Amos Shapir (My other cpu is a NS32532) National Semiconductor (Israel) 6 Maskit st. P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 amos%taux01@nsc.com 34 48 E / 32 10 N