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Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names

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From: Erik E. Fair
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1987 06:46
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In article <1094@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>So what am I going to do about it?  Nothing!  Eunice news sites have
>two options: define SPOOLDIR to be /spool/news or something like
>that, or use an alias (comp.sys.ibm-pc.digest is probably best).

NOTE: if you use the "alias" approach, be sure that your site is only a
"leaf" node of the network (that is, you only have one netnews
neighbor), so that this change does not propagate out onto the
network.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!esosun!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucbvax!ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU!fair
References: <1082@epimass.UUCP> <724@vu-vlsi.UUCP> <1094@epimass.UUCP>

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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names
Message-ID: <18577@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 02:46:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 02:46:25 1987
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Keywords: VMS Rooted directories