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Re: What son-of-rfc-1036 should say about "Distribution: "

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From: Tom Limoncelli
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:06
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In <1ir1muINNkvd@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

>No, I mean I'm going to write a newsfeeds file entry.  As in what INN
>uses.  I find that it's a lot easier to just list groups than it is to
>list this.group,!this.group.all (which is what you have to do with C
>News).  I'm already doing this, and nothing seems to have broken (yet).

I actually wrote a program that generated "this.group,!this.group.all"
for a site.  Input was the "arbitron" output for one machine and the
active file for the other.  It was a pretty gruesome alpha-beta
search but it did generate the shortest possible "sys" file.

Luckily, I was able to throw it away and make a much faster version
when all sites involved turned into INN sites.

Tom

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From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
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Subject: Re: What son-of-rfc-1036 should say about "Distribution: "
Date: 11 Jan 1993 11:06:21 -0500
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