rae98@wash08.uucp (Robert A. Earl) (10/11/89)
Before I installed Cnews last month, I got a checkgroups message automagically every month-beginning or so which told me what was wrong with my active file. Did I miss it this month...Did I bungle something while installing Cnews? What is different this month? Any suggestions? -- =========================================================== Name: Bob Earl Phone: (202) 872-6018 (wk) UUCP: ...!uunet!wash08!rae98 BITNET: rae98@CAS
tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence) (12/06/89)
Bleah. This appeared in control here today: > Path: rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!tfsg!otts > From: otts@tfsg.UUCP (otts) > Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl,control > Subject: checkgroups > Message-ID: <106@tfsg.UUCP> > Date: 6 Dec 89 01:14:26 GMT > Control: checkgroups > Followup-To: news.admin.ctl > Organization: TRW Inc., Chantilly, VA > Lines: 1035 > Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu > Distriubtion: local _PLEASE_ do not pass Distribution: local postings. Most of us don't care that you happen to want alt.sex.bestiality or don't think soc.culture.asean is valid. If you want to newgroup alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork it shouldn't appear on a third (VERY rough guess; I have no real idea how widespread the problem is) of the sites of USENET. Clearly, at least one distribution class is needed to keep postings limited to a single site, whether they be control messages, or burst digests, or locally gatewayed mailing lists or whatever. It might as well be "local" so that everyone can clearly put in their sys files not to pass it on, even if they happen to get an errant one fed to them. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))
tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence) (12/06/89)
In article <FA+QW*@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence) writes: > Distriubtion: local _PLEASE_ do not pass Distribution: local postings. What a dorque. The problem for this posting was obviously that Distribution: was misspelled, so there was no way to stop it. (Thanks, Joe Weening, for pointing it out to me. Now hopefully four hundred other people won't.) I still consider what I said in the rest of my article to be valid. I _have_ seen "local" postings make it here from off-site, and it really shouldn't happen. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))
bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) (12/07/89)
In article <FA+QW*@rpi.edu>, tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence) writes:
- Bleah. This appeared in control here today:
-
- > Path: rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!tfsg!otts
- > From: otts@tfsg.UUCP (otts)
- > Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl,control
- > Subject: checkgroups
- > Message-ID: <106@tfsg.UUCP>
- > Date: 6 Dec 89 01:14:26 GMT
- > Control: checkgroups
- > Followup-To: news.admin.ctl
- > Organization: TRW Inc., Chantilly, VA
- > Lines: 1035
- > Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu
- > Distriubtion: local
------^^--------------------------- LOOK
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- _PLEASE_ do not pass Distribution: local postings. Most of us don't
- care that you happen to want alt.sex.bestiality or don't think
- soc.culture.asean is valid.
Looks like a typo to me. This guy misspelled the -d switch to inews.
--
Bob Weissman, USENET admin for omni.com
Internet: bob@omni.com
UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,sgi,tekbspa,uunet}!koosh!bobswc@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.W. Cox CMP Staff) (01/22/90)
Could somebody give me some advice on posting the checkgroups control message. I've been trying from within nn and by using Pnews and inews directly but nothing is forcoming. I'm sure my active file is not fully up to date so it's not due to to the fact that it has found nothing wrong. Thanks, Steve.