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In article <C0JqLz.MAC@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|In article <721@rescon.UUCP> bud@rescon.UUCP (Alex Batyi) writes:
|>... Please nobody tell me to go get Cnews?  Please?

|>I just noticed news unbatching from king.mcs.drexel.edu.  "king" to
|>our little Xenix386 box.  Then I noticed all the news spooled up
|>to go to king.  Nobody but king is sending us this much news right
|>now.  That made me sit up.  Not much could at this hour.  Ok, no
|>biggie.  Bnews thinks news is coming in from king.mcs.drexel.edu not
|>king.  Why am I nervous?  Why?  Because the more I think about it
|>the more it seems like we got a problem...

|I'm afraid you do.  And I'm afraid the answer is probably going to be
|the one you asked people not to tell you...  I don't think B News ever
|did get the feature needed to cope with this right (although I lost track
|of B News changes around 2.11 and may have missed it).

Not quite, but close.  B news can handle it.

|In C News, your sys file entry would start "king/king.mcs.drexel.edu:"
|instead of just "king:", to say "his name is king, but by the way, don't
|send him anything that seems to have passed through king.mcs.drexel.edu".
|Try it, maybe it'll work...

The above won't work in B news.  B news never understood "/" in site or
newsgroup fields.

|Alternatively, you could list him as king.mcs.drexel.edu in the sys file
|but specify an explicit file name (i.e. don't leave the last field empty)
|to direct output to a file named .../king instead of .../k.m.d.e.

This will work fine with B news.  Ie:

	king.mcs.drexel.edu:.....:F:/usr/spool/batch/king
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