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from: Leonard.Erickson@Leonard.Erickson@.user@.site (Leonard Erickson)
date: 1996-09-21 00:00:00
subject: Re: GIGO and newsgroups

-=> 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. 




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