barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) (05/01/91)
[Added news.software.b to the Newsgroups, since this is about C News as well as nn. --apb] In article <ccfj.672860685@hippo>, ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod) writes: > I have the following parameters set in my ~.nn/init file: > > set default-distribution local > set follow-distribution ask same default > > However, when posting a follow up to an article with 'world' > distribution, the distribution reverts to 'local'. > > I am using 'cnews' as the mail transport, and suspect the problem > is due to 'cnews' zapping the Distribution: header entirely if > it is 'world'. I don't think C News does that. C News's inews will delete a 'Distribution: world' header from a local posting, but nothing in C News modifies distribution headers of incoming articles. There is some code in C News's relaynews program that treats an article without a Distribution as if it had 'Distribution: world', but I think this is used only to check which sys file lines match. > Is there some obvious workaround to change this behaviour? Or is > it a case of my misunderstanding something? nn thinks that the Distribution: header is mandatory, while C News knows that it is optional. If you could tell nn to set follow-distribution ask same "world" then I think you would get what you want (followups to messages that don't have a Distribution: header get sent to Distribution: world) -- but I don't think you can make nn do that. You might have to 'set default-distribution world' to get the followups to work right, and educate your users to use appropriate distributions on new (non-followup) articles. --apb Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za Bang: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett