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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Learning about dropped articles
Message-ID: <18523@celit.fps.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 03:17:29 GMT
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In article <1VgJ46w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
>karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes:
>> So much for non-notification.  Anyone suspecting that their articles
>> aren't escaping the local feed's gravity well can always attempt a
>> *.test posting to see what comes back.
>
>New here, aren't you?

Mathew, you must be new or you'd know better.

>I *DID* try misc.test with worldwide distribution.  I got responses from
>various sites, some in far-away places.  Because, of course, there happened
>to be a path to some of those sites which didn't go via any C News sites.

So you weren't really cut off from the net eh?  You were just cut off
from Cnews sites.  All this over something less than the majority of
the net?  Phhhht.

>Besides, are you really suggesting that every user should post to misc.test
>periodically, just to make sure some new revision of C News hasn't moved the
>goalposts and rendered his articles illegal overnight?

No.  The news admin should do it.  The users can remain oblivious.  Too
bad that you think the news admin should too.

--Bill Davidson