pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) (08/12/87)
How does one construct the mailpaths file so that a local moderated
group is possible? The "how to construct a mailpaths" document hints
that this is possible.
"The keyword field consists of either the word "internet", the
word "backbone", or some newsgroup pattern."
This is what our mailpaths file looks like (to.munsell.m is a
moderated group):
backbone adelie!harvard!seismo!%s
internet adelie!%s
to.munsell.m munsell!usenet
I tried replacing the .'s with -'s but that did not help. Postings
are still queued for ..!seismo!to-munsell-m. (They do not leave the
site, I stop them.)
We are running 2.11 (patchlevel 1) news on with SunOS 3.2.
Thank you.
pZ
--
Paul Czarnecki -- My newsfeed's in Esperanto
{{harvard,ll-xn}!adelie,{decvax,allegra,talcott}!encore}!munsell!pzmlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) (08/12/87)
In news.admin (<1174@pinney.munsell.UUCP>), pac@munsell.UUCP () writes: >How does one construct the mailpaths file so that a local moderated >group is possible? The "how to construct a mailpaths" document hints >that this is possible. The trick (which may not be documented - I got it my mail from Rick Adams) is to put entries that describe local newsgroups BEFORE the backbone entry in mailpaths. In effect, think of news as scanning the mailpaths file linearly and stopping at the first match. The backbone entry acts as a wildcard to catch anything that makes it through that far. Ergo, you need to put local stuff first. Here's the mailpaths file from diamond.bbn.com, which works fine (except that the backbone entry should probably be changed to UUNET.UU.NET at this point): bbn.bboard bboard@bbn.com bbn.food food@bbn.com bbn.library library@bbn.com bbn.movies movies@bbn.com bbn.dave-barry dave-barry@bbn.com bbn.local-sun local-sun@bbn.com bbn.x-windows bbn-xwindows@bbn.com bbn.4bsd bbn4bsd@bbn.com xport xport@athena.mit.edu backbone %s@seismo.css.gov internet %s -- Matt Landau A rock feels no pain... mlandau@bbn.com ...and an island never cries.
rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) (08/12/87)
In article <1174@pinney.munsell.UUCP>, pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) writes: > This is what our mailpaths file looks like (to.munsell.m is a > moderated group): > > backbone adelie!harvard!seismo!%s > internet adelie!%s > to.munsell.m munsell!usenet > > I tried replacing the .'s with -'s but that did not help. Postings > are still queued for ..!seismo!to-munsell-m. (They do not leave the > site, I stop them.) The '.' should be replaced with '-'. However, the problem is that inews is scanning forward looking for the FIRST match. Since "backbone" is a wild card that matches anything it will never scan place that. If you put the line: to-munsell-m munsell!usenet BEFORE the line containing "backbone", it will match that one first. ---rick
pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) (08/12/87)
In article <1174@pinney.munsell.UUCP> pac@munsell.UUCP () writes: >How does one construct the mailpaths file so that a local moderated >group is possible? >backbone adelie!harvard!seismo!%s >internet adelie!%s >to.munsell.m munsell!usenet The solution is to put the "to.munsell.m" before the others. Thanks to pyramid!csg (Carl S. Gutekunst) for the quick solution. pZ -- Paul Czarnecki -- My newsfeed's in Esperanto {{harvard,ll-xn}!adelie,{decvax,allegra,talcott}!encore}!munsell!pz
ron@chp.UUCP (08/18/87)
Breaker braker...
Just thought I'd say hello.
How many cities and countries are acknowledging this greeting?
And any individuals, a simple 'hi' will do. That's all for now.
-- Rono