dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) (08/05/89)
In article <1989Aug3.112451.21772@nc386.uucp> rhg@nc386.uucp (Rich Garrett) writes:
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And there are more where that came from - they're just hitting our
news server as I type this. A likely consequence is that this and the
other affected news groups' moderators will get hundreds of copies of
articles posted as some parts of the net show the group moderated while
others don't.
I presume that C news is to blame (look at that great long C news style
Reference), rather than Richard himself deciding to disrupt the net.
It appears that doing what for B news is an innocent command to create a
news group locally will, with C news, send that newgroup control message to
the entire net. Of course there is a way in C news to specify a local
distribution, but it seems that people used to B news's more civilised
default control distribution of 'local' keep getting caught out by the
different behaviour.
WHY DOES C NEWS DO THIS?
PLEASE will the C news people issue an urgent patch or update to C news
(marked MANDATORY :-) ) to change its behaviour so that control articles
are by default sent to local distribution, as currently happens with B news.
I know that they believe C news doesn't have to be completely compatible
with B news, but in this respect IT REALLY DOES.
Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK
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