Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utstat!geoff
From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: C News sys file strangeness
Message-ID: <1989Sep5.175836.16963@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
References: <KAYVAN.89Sep5004525@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 17:58:36 GMT

Kayvan Sylvan:
>I have the following line in my sys file that does not seem to work:
>funnystuff:rec.humor.funny::mail user1 user2 user3

This seems to be a common problem.  Remember that in order to match a
sys file entry, an article's Newsgroups: must match the newsgroup
pattern given in the sys file entry, *and* the article's Distribution:
("world" by default) must match the distribution pattern in the sys
file entry (which by default is the sys file entry's newsgroup
pattern).  In B news, this is conventionally written as

	funnystuff:rec.humor.funny,world,!world.all::mail user1 user2 user3

C news lets you give the distribution pattern separately, so either of
these would also work:

	funnystuff:rec.humor.funny/world::mail user1 user2 user3
	funnystuff:rec.humor.funny/all::mail user1 user2 user3
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu
