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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Problems with moderated postings
Keywords: problem news software
Message-ID: <1989Sep14.234033.714@twwells.com>
Date: 14 Sep 89 23:40:33 GMT
References: <70@promark.UUCP>
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In article <70@promark.UUCP> mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) writes:
: I have posted a request for help twice now in comp.newusers.questions.

I hope you meant "news.newusers.questions". If not, that explains one
problem: there is no newsgroup comp.newusers.questions (unless it is
a local group).

: Not to get any acknowledgement, or even a piece of email is making me
: start to wonder about my postings to unmoderated groups also.

Posting to moderated and unmoderated newsgroups are different things.
Posting to an unmoderated newsgroup just gets your posting added to
the news files and then sent out to your news neighbors; posting to a
moderated newsgroup, if it works at all, gets your message mailed to
the moderator who then posts it for you. Generally, these fail in
very different ways.

Unfortunately, there isn't enough information in your original
posting for me to tell what is going on. You mentioned your mailpaths
file and said that it has the backbone site. Does the line look like:

backbone        path-to-backbone-site!%s

If so, that is OK. Or, if you have a smart mailer it might just be:

backbone        backbone-site!%s

Something else to look for: are these mail messages perhaps going
somewhere else? Like into a mailbox?

Other than those hints, I haven't any idea what is going wrong.

One other point: this question really should have been posted in
news.software.b. That is where you are most likely to get useful help.

Why not post it there?

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