Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:
 MR> Some senseless babbling from David Calafrancesco to Mike
 MR> Ruskai on 07-27-97  05:15 about GIGO...
 MR> Anyone here using GIGO to import news via SOUP who can point
 MR> me in the right  direction?
 DC> Vsoup needs a soupfix program to restore the file to usable state for
 MR> The GIGO documentation indicates that it can handle SOUP
 MR> format files, so  are you saying that VSOUP generates broken
 MR> SOUP files?
Correct, check the Vsoup docs. There is a program to strip the extra stuff 
out of the file and restore back to .bag format. 
 DC> GIGO. Also, do you have a mapping.cfg file with the newsgroup names of
 DC> the groups you wish to gate? There is a nodelete test flag for GIGO as
 DC> well as a GIGO mailing list that might be very useful for you. 
 MR> I have all the newsgroups configured in mapping.cfg, yes,
 MR> with nothing  other than the group name on the line, which I
 MR> take to be the way to  configure them to use the name of the
 MR> newsgroup as the echo name. 
= alt.answers                                       alt.answers
= alt.archery                                       alt.archery
= alt.bbs.gigo-gateway                              alt.bbs.gigo-gateway
Make sure that you either use this format or:
+ alt.a* 
Personally I much preferr the = format than the global (+/-) system. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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