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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Pnews failure
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.203029.3043@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 90 20:30:29 GMT
References: <1990Nov29.154648.4647@ssd.kodak.com>
Reply-To: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
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In article <1990Nov29.154648.4647@ssd.kodak.com>, dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
> I am running Cnews on a Sun 4/260 running OS4.0.3. (nntp)
> Is there a reason why my articles don't always get posted?  I tried
> to post to comp.sys.sun, and all looked like it went well, but when
> I looked in /var/spool/news/out.going there was nothing there.  I
> then tried to post to misc.test, and it went out ok.  This has
> happened a couple times now.  Any ideas why?

 That's because comp.sys.sun (among others) is a moderated newsgroup,
meaning your "post" gets mailed to the moderator of the group. He/she
then makes the articles show up. comp.sys.sun's had a bit of lag time
lately, but Bob Greene said he's working to try to improve it.



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    Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
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