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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: sendsys control message
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.213724.24353@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1779@asuvax.asu.edu> <1990Sep14.151721.28060@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Sep15.040224.6976@robobar.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 90 21:37:24 GMT

In article <1990Sep15.040224.6976@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>> >How does one send the 'inews -c sendsys' to only specific sites and not 
>> >a complete distribution?
>>
>> Basically, one doesn't.
>
>But in one common case where all the machines between you and the target
>site follow the common convention of using a to.sitename pseudo group for
>sending control messages only to particular neighbour sites (especially
>common if ihave/sendme is in use) then you can do a Newsgroups:  virtual
>bang path to the target site...

Possible, but tricky.  It's easy for to.sitename groups to go unexpected
places, especially when one site puts its software together by cloning
it from another.
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