Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Sozbon-C Update Message-ID: <394@xdos.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 89 22:50:18 GMT References: <2482@van-bc.UUCP> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 30 In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: > Of course, the easiest way is simply to >post it to comp.sources.amiga -- he'll get it. This is actually error prone, since there's lots of different kinds of news software out there other than the Unix News B, and even *that* comes in many release flavors with different bugs. Some possible problems: his news software might not be aware that it should forward to moderators, or it might not know the correct moderator address, or it might try more or less the right thing but screw up the exact phrasing of the moderator's address, or it might just throw it away. Possibly the worst possible case is if it *seems* to go off somewhere, but never actually reaches Bob. This includes some scenarios where it is sort of posted to the group illegally, and some receivers trash it as illegally posted and others allow it. Such problems are hopefully rarer now than they were in the past, but wasn't he on Bitnet? Who knows how it works thru such torturous paths. Posting to moderated groups and depending that your software will do the right thing is reasonable *only* if you've done some local research to determine whether that has a chance of working correctly. Doug -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary