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[ Can inews be told, preferably by a header line of some sort, to mail
a copy to someone, in addition to posting, or am I wishing for too much? ]

I once had all locally generated, outgoing articles mailed to the
usenet id.  Recently this stoped working properly.  I diddn't really
notice until today, when I was cleaning out usenet's mailbox.

None of the articles I posted to tor.test yesterday were mailed by
either control line as I had expected.  However my tor.news.stats
posting was mailed, by the 'usenet2' line, as expected:

Dec 24 00:19:16.000 robohack + <1989Dec24.051823.14625@robohack.UUCP> druid eci386 ecicrl nebulus telly tmsoft usenet2

It seems to me that this behavior started after I discovered that it
was indeed dangerous to use the libstdio stuff on my 3B2 (when expire
was mis-behaving, I decided to run the regression tests, which
promptly failed).  Once I had re-linked everything without the
libstdio stuff, expire worked fine, though relaynews seemed a bit
slower (1-2 art/s, down from 2-3 art/s, both with the new dbz).  I
don't know if it is indeed this time at which the mail stopped, as I
have been tuning the sys file at the same time.  I haven't made any
changes to the 'usenet' line however.

#
#	sys - USENET system control file
#

# line indicating what we are willing to receive
#
#
ME:all,\
	!ca,\
	!soc.culture,\
	!talk,\
	!bionet,\
	!vmsnet,\
	!comp.binaries,\
	!comp.os.vms,\
	!comp.os.cpm,\
	!eci.service,\
	!eci.systems,\
	to/all::

# Partial feeds
#
eci386:biz,u3b/all,!local:f:

# local-postings-only feed direct neighboring sites (gets them out fast)
#
druid/druid,nebulus,tmsoft:all,\
	!mail,!eci,!ersa,!to,to.druid/all,!eci,!local:fL3:
eci386/eci386,ecicrl,ecijmm:all,\
	!mail,!eci,!ersa,!to,to.eci386/all,!eci,!local:fL3:
ecicrl/eci386,ecicrl,ecijmm:all,\
	!mail,!eci,!ersa,!to,to.ecicrl/all,!eci,!local:fL3:
#ecijmm/eci386,ecicrl,ecijmm:all,\
#	!mail,!eci,!ersa,!to,to.ecijmm/all,!eci,!local:fL3:
nebulus/druid,nebulus,telly,tmsoft:all,\
	!mail,!eci,!ersa,!to,to.nebulus/all,!eci,!local:fL3:
telly/eci386,nebulus,telly:all,\
	!mail,!eci,!ersa,!to,to.telly/all,!eci,!local:fL3:
tmsoft/nebulus,tmsoft:all,\
	!mail,!eci,!ersa,!to,to.tmsoft/all,!eci,!local:fL3:

#
# fakesite's - these are used to simplify maintenance and administration
#

# save all the map article pathnames (as a normal outgoing batch)
#
maps:comp.mail.maps/all:f:/usr/local/lib/smail/maps.new

# save the article ID's of all locally generated articles
#
out:all,!tor.news.stats,!mail,!control/all:IL:/usr/spool/news/out.going/out.going

# mail a copy of local articles to the Usenet Administrator
#
usenet:all,!tor.news.stats,!control,!mail/all:L:mush -s "Posted Article" usenet
usenet2:all/all:L:mush -s "Posted Article" usenet

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						Greg A. Woods

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