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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Learning about dropped articles
Message-ID: <1VgJ46w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 14 Jun 91 15:58:23 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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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?

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.

However, large areas of the net didn't get the misc.test message.  Of course,
I had no way to know this, because I had no way to predict how many responses
I ought to have got.

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?


mathew