-=> Quoting Lee Kirby to Leonard Erickson <=-
LK> On 18-Sep-1996 (22:54), Leonard Erickson wrote to Lee Kirby:
LK> This may seem like a silly question, but it's not obvious to me how
LK> to get GIGO to talk my UUCP host into spooling particular newsgroups
LK> for me. I get the feeling MAPPING.CFG plays a role, but everything
LK> I've tried has me thinking that I not catching on to something.
LE> *Nothing* you can do in Gigo can get your host to spool a specific
LE> newsgroup for you. You have to send *mail* to your host requesting
LE> changes in the groups they feed you.
LK> Ah...I see. Is there a standard way to talk to a newserver into
LK> spooling news? I believe my provider uses Taylor UUCP.
I may be wrong, but as far as I know, you have to send email to the
*person* responsible for maintaining the appropriate files on your
host.
... Bug: (n.) any program feature not yet described to marketing.
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