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- From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: news, new groups, and bounced mail
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.140328.3839@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 18:03:28 GMT
- References: <920909679@tiny.com> <9209101144@gandalf.moria>
- Organization: SPC Community Access System
- Lines: 53
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- In article <9209101144@gandalf.moria>, michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt) writes:
- > In article <920909679@tiny.com>, sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J. Sobol) writes:
- >> Wnews, when it receives a newgroup message from my feed, automatically
- >> creates the group, and then the mail message telling me about it bounces
- >> because of the way it is sent. I know I can install another mail program
- >> like 'deliver' that will be able to handle the bouncing mail, but,
- >> fercryinoutloud, I don't want all these new groups created in the first
- >> place without my consent!! If I want them I will ask for them!! Can I disable
- >> this? If not, would it hurt to rmgroup 'control' or take it out of my sys
- >> file? (Because that is what I am about to do. I'm tired of rmgroupping and
- >> manually removing directories.)
- >
- > It seems to me that somehow the wnews port to Coherent misses FvKs
- > wonderful manual about wnews -- or nobody reads it.
-
- Yes, it is missing. How about emailing a copy to myself (I'll send
- it to raven) or posting it here? I have figured out the basics by
- myself, but I would like to have instructions for the expire command
- and general documentation.
-
- > WNEWS DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY CREATE A GROUP WHEN IT DOESN'T EXIST.
- > Wnews creates a new group when it gets a control article with a newgroup
- > request. Ok? You already know about control messages, so may I ask why
- > you don't wonder about getting flooded with control messages?
-
- Yes, I figured this out too when some twit send out a few phony
- control messages for a couple of bogus alt.* groups.
-
- > For now, I recommend renaming the newgroup program, that should help.
-
- That's what I did.
-
- > I don't know about the mail, usually it is sent to usenet@your-host. If
- > you cared about either installing wnews right or changing that name in
- > the header file as mentioned in the install description, the mail will not
- > bounce. I guess you don't have usenet in you /etc/passwd.
-
- No, that isn't the problem. There is a syntax error in the way
- rmail is called to send these messages to "usenet". The error
- is caused (on my system anyway) by wnews passing something like
- rmail --s instead of rmail -s.
-
- I haven't had the time to fix this yet, but I'm sure it's just a
- quick patch.
-
- > I *highly* recommend reading the wnews manual, although it is a little
- > work.
-
- I would LOVE to do this, but I cannot find it anywhere!
-
- Cheers,
-
- Chris
-