david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (08/31/88)
Argh. I really tried to understand how newsgroups are pattern
matched against distributions but I just can't work it out.
I'm trying to set up a redistribution of alt.sca into a mailing
list. It worked for a long time then it broke again sometime
in the last month and the last month has been hectic enough
that I don't remember where or when it broke. The sys file entry
looks like this:
internet:ky,!ky.all,alt,!alt.all,alt.sca,!alt.sca.all,world,inet,\
ddn,!ddn.all,na,usa\
:S:/net/lib.news/gateway alt-sca redist-alt-sca redist-alt-sca-request e.ms.uky.edu
I think I got the "alt,!alt.all,alt.sca,!alt.sca.all" group from
Erik (or his gateway program). What I am seeing is that stuff with
Distribution: alt do not go to redist-alt-sca, but ones without
a Distribution: *do*.
Now, ngmatch(alt.sca, alt.sca.all) won't match. (I'm not sure why,
I'd think it should, but that's the way the code reads). And I can
read in the code that the Newsgroups: alt.sca will match my sys
file entry. Then the code goes on andd checks against the Distribution:
line and does it in reverse (ngmatch(ng,dist) && (ngmatch(dist,ng)).
That's when I got a headache and decided to quit.
I can't find this documented but I do remember it being discussed somewhere.
I just don't remember where. Nor did I save it away.
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In article <10197@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes: >I'm trying to set up a redistribution of alt.sca into a mailing list. That's curious - it's already a mailing list (sca@mc.lcs.mit.edu) that we gateway with alt.sca. Perhaps you could save yourself the trouble and have a redistribution-explosion point on your system simply added to the mailing list. >What I am seeing is that stuff with Distribution: alt do not go to >redist-alt-sca, but ones without a Distribution: *do*. If you have seen any articles coming through the gateway (you can tell because of "Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu") without "Distribution: alt" lines, please let me know. I think we're clean (famous last words :-). -=- Zippy sez, --Bob This ASEXUAL PIG really BOILS my BLOOD... He's so..so.....URGENT!!