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Sorry, some local newgroup messages escaped

#200
From: Richard Michael Todd
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1989 22:07
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As some of you are probably aware by now, about 15 or so newgroup messages
accidentally escaped my site, servalan.  I've been setting up C news on my
site, and created locally (or so I thought) the newsgroups with
"inews -C newsgroup -d local".  As you all can see, inews cheerfully put
"Distribution: local" in the body instead of the header, making a local 
newgroup global.  The messages sent out were for the following newsgroups:
	rec.music.misc
	rec.music.folk
	rec.music.dementia
	rec.music.cd
	rec.music.bluenote
	rec.music.newage
	rec.music.synth
	rec.music.gaffa
	comp.sys.mac
	comp.unix.aux
	ok.general
	ok.announce
	ok.test
	ecn.general
	
Kindly ignore the ok.* and ecn.* groups, as most of you shouldn't be getting
those groups.
Sorry, guys.  I really did think this stuff wouldn't go anywhere past my
machine.  I definitely need to look at the C News "inews" shell script to
see what is going on....
-- 
Richard Todd   rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us  or  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  
                                    aka     ...!sun!texsun!uokmax!rmtodd
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!att!occrsh!uokmax!rmtodd
From: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Sorry, some local newgroup messages escaped
Summary: Oops, Spencer's inews script did something I didn't expect....
Message-ID: <3393@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 22:07:24 GMT
Reply-To: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Followup-To: news.admin
Organization: evidently very little today....
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