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| Subject: (7.16) More about the "to.*" groups |
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(Thanks to jmalcolm@sura.net (Joseph Malcolm) for supplying these answers.) >1) Why did my local INN act on the sendsys posted to to.neighbor?to.* groups aren't magic to INN. Your system received the message, it acted on it. >2) Why did my neighbor send the cmsg to all of his neighbors?See 3. >3) Is is related to having the "control" group in our newsgroups patterns?Yes. > The INN docs say you probably don't want to do this, but they don't say > why.Actually, they do. This is from innd(8): Sites may explicitly have the ``control'' newsgroup in their subscription list, although it is usually best to exclude
it. If a control message is posted to a group whose name
ends with the four characters ``.ctl'' then the suffix is
stripped off and what is left is used as the group name.
For example, a cancel message posted to ``news.admin.misc.ctl''
will be sent to all sites that subscribe to ``control'' or
``news.admin.misc''.
There is also a pointer to this in newsfeeds(5).> But I still need it in my active file, right? Yes. ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/16 01:25:57 $ $Revision: 2.25 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |
