Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Separate newsgroup & distribution fields in sys file
Message-ID: <1988Jun17.214041.18122@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1286@wjvax.uucp> <1290@wjvax.uucp> <4092@fluke.com>, <dPems#33EyJR=eric@snark.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 88 21:40:41 GMT

> >It may be too late to get 3.0 or C news to make the sys file cleaner
> 
> News 3.0 does this right. The newsgroup and distributions are separate
> fields in its sys format, and thus implicitly separate namespaces.

The C News crew felt constrained by compatibility, but we too did
implement this:  if there is a slash (/) in the first field of the sys
file, the stuff before it is groups and the stuff after is distributions.
Works fine, don't know how we ever lived without it.  (It happened long
enough ago to be in the alpha release, by the way.)
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