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- UULIB:Sys FILE
-
- The UULIB:Sys file lists all systems that send you news and all systems
- that you feed news to. Any news received from any one system in this
- list is sent to all other systems on the list (never back to the system
- that originally sent the news). Any news that you post from your machine
- will be sent to ALL systems on the list.
-
- UPSTREAM: sites which feed you (i.e. your news feed) (news you post feeds
- back)
-
- DOWNSTREAM: sites which you feed (news they post feeds back)
-
- WARNING: There can be no loops in the 'network' you create by
- listing several other UPSTREAM machines along with your main feed.
- Generally in a local UUCP network made up of Amigas, only ONE site will
- receive news from the 'backbone' USENET and propogate it to the other
- machines. If two machines propogated duplicate news from the same
- backbone site, duplicate articles would appear. If two machines
- propogated duplicate news from DIFFERENT backbone sites then your
- little amiga network will be looping news throughout the entire USENET
- which will make a LOT OF PEOPLE ANGRY!
-
- The Sys file consists of entries like this (example) (NO WHITE SPACE
- ALLOWED):
-
- uunet:*
- friend1:*
- friend2:*
-
- Some news sites will have several names, to prevent news from being
- circulated to the uucp name of a site when it is passed under a
- different name, you can specify aliases as follows (NO WHITE SPACE
- ALLOWED):
-
- uucpname:alias:alias:alias: ...
-
- In most cases you will have only one news site, your main backbone, and
- you do not have to worry about it too much. The formal format is:
-
- site:<wildcard>,<wildcard>,<wildcard>,\
- <wildcard>,<wildcard> ...
-
- or (example w/ aliases)
-
- site:alternatename:<wildcard>,<wildcard>,<wildcard>,\
- <wildcard>,<wildcard> ...
-
- A wildcard uses '*' and '?', and may be preceeded by a '-' to indicate
- groups that should NOT be passed along. For example, the following is
- valid:
-
- uunet:*,-comp.*,comp.*amiga*
-
- Which can be interpreted as 'include all groups except the comp groups,
- except except let the amiga comp groups through'. Not that anybody
- would use such a declaration, it is simply to demonstrate the power
- of wildcards.
-
- The '!' character can be used as a synonym for the '-' character.
-
- Multiple lines can be used using '\' continuation (the last line should
- not have a '\'). The <wildcard> is a wildcarde newsgroup name, such as
- comp.* or comp.sys.* or a specific newsgroup or whatever, specifying
- which newsgroups should be propogated to that particular site.
-
- Whenever news is received by RNEWS, either through a local posting or
- remotely received news, the Sys file is scanned and an entry appended
- to the file UUSpool:Batch/<system> for each system the news is to be
- propagated to. RNEWS will never propogate news to a machine that is
- already in the Path: field and so the news is never echo'd.
-
- Note that the news is NOT spooled yet. To spool all pending news you
- must run the BATCHNEWS program. Thus, to propagate news to other
- sites (including your own news to your main feed), you must run
- BATCHNEWS before UUCICO. you can have UUCICO automatically run
- BATCHNEWS by specifying the -b option to UUCICO.
-