Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: news.config,pubnet.config
Subject: Re: Net Politics
Keywords: NET POLITICS
Message-ID: <2826@becker.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 90 20:47:30 GMT
References: <5303@lgnp1.LS.COM>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 42

In article <5303@lgnp1.LS.COM> root@lgnp1.LS.COM (Super user) writes:
|[...]
|as i stated in my last posting i am having a problem with chem.ecsd.edu
|reposting news articles.  this site/domain reposts any and all articles posted
|pubnet.nixpub.  i mentioned that i had been in contact with the admin for the
|offending site and he told me that he could only correct the problem if the
|site stopped forwarding the group.  he explained that apparently some site
|thinks that this pubnet.nixpub is moderated and his site just re-acting.  at
|his suggestion, i sent out several control messages (over the course of the
|last month) -- this, of course, did not solve anything.  the group is NOT
|moderated and shouldn't be marked as such.

	As far as I know the result of a moderated
	group is to mail the article to the moderator,
	usually via a backbone site (unless they're
	running News 2.10 or something).

	If some site erroneously has "pubnet.nixpub"
	marked moderated, they would mail posted articles
	to "uunet!pubnet-nixpub", or to the site that's
	listed as "backbone" in the mailpaths file.
	There's no way it should get reposted unless
	somebody's software is broken somewhere.

	Either the admin at the offending site has
	configured things wrong, or else he should be
	trying to help find out the name of "some site"
	by sending you the information from the "Path:"
	header line of some selected "pubnet.nixpub"
	articles from his site. You might try to arrange
	this with him and then post a test article or 2.

	It may be that someone downstream has hacked
	news on a personal machine and hasn't quite
	understood how it all works in every detail...

Good luck,
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