control@almsa-1 (William Martin) (07/02/85)
The "postnews" process saves copies of an account's postings in a file called "author_copy", unless this feature is turned off or modified with the NEWSARCHIVE variable. The posting mechanism in "rn", however, does NOT save copies in this way (at least it doesn't on two hosts I've tried it on). Is this intentional, or a bug, or was something just never turned on right in the "rn"s I have used? I have tried explicitly setting "NEWSARCHIVE" to "author_copy"; this seemed to do nothing in "rn". Is there a reason why "rn" would be designed not to continue using the same user files that postnews used? I would think the continuity would be desirable. What should a user do to make "rn" save copies in "author_copy" (or whatever file is desired)? What should a news administrator do to make this be the default for his/her site? Regards, Will ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA UUCP/Usenet: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin