Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News sys file strangeness
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.022714.6162@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <KAYVAN.89Sep5004525@mrspoc.Transact.COM> <1989Sep5.175836.16963@utstat.uucp>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 02:27:14 GMT

In article <1989Sep5.175836.16963@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>>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...

Incidentally, our apologies for not making sure that this was documented
conspicuously.  On the theory that examples are better than specifications
for such things, one of the recent patches put an example of this into the
prototype sys file we supply.
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