xfering newsgroups ?

[Russ Allbery]

Rajeev Lamba <Rajeev.Lamba at Sun.COM> writes:

> Ok, thanks.Have started the news alricles migration using this method
> and articles are being xfered.

> Notice lots of Rejected atricles though with  Unwanted distribution "local",

> Jul 15 15:07:47.291 - newsme.iplanet.com <cabal.3E311D2F.5060103 at sun.com> 437 Unwanted distribution "local"
> Jul 15 15:07:47.291 - newsme.iplanet.com <cabal.3E311F57.1000203 at sun.com> 437 Unwanted distribution "local"

> Is this normal ?, newsfeeds ME entry on new server has :

> # Empty default subscription list, reject all incoming articles with a
> # distribution of "local" or "collabra-internal," accept all others.
> ME:!*/!local,!collabra-internal::

> which think is causing articles with local distribution be rejected.

I'm not sure that default newsfeeds entry is particularly useful; it was a
nice idea (to try to keep local from leaking), but ends up not doing the
right thing if people are actually using local as a distribution (which
isn't a very good idea, but oh well).

Anyway, you want to remove the !local thing from the ME line and then will
probably need to wipe the databases on the new server and start over,
since those articles will have been rejected and noted in history and
won't be accepted now without a database wipe.

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