'alberta' is schizophrenic?

[lyn...@ncc.uucp]

The system seemed a wee bit sluggish this afternoon. A quick 'ps'
showed approx. 20 uucico's running. Not bad when you consider that
we only have one phone line...:-)

An 'ls /usr/spool/uucp | wc -l' came back with something silly like
2813! A little poking around showed that all news articles from
alberta had a Path: header of 'ncc!pembina!...' instead of the
usual 'ncc!alberta!...' which caused rnews to immediately turn
around and forward the message to alberta. What's a poor boy to do?
Well, if you take news directly from alberta, try the following entry
in /usr/lib/news/sys:

alberta/pembina:...:F:

Is this a trick to make us upgrade to 2.11? :-)
--
Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM) Systems Group - A Div. of Nexus Computing Corp.

UUCP: {ihnp4,ubc-vision,watmath}!alberta!ncc!lyndon BITNET: USERCHNL@UALTAMTS

[la...@alberta.uucp]

The problem mentioned by Lyndon Nerenberg occurred last week when I upgraded
alberta from 2.10 to 2.11 news. I meant to install a localize.sh which had
HIDDENNET defined, but instead I accidentally installed one which didn't.
This resulted in articles being postmarked 'pembina' (which is the local name
for our gateway machine). I noticed this problem the next day, and quickly
fixed it. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone.

Rob Lake (alberta!lake)
University of Alberta