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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: <eXHs49w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 19 Jun 91 12:59:13 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
> In article <1VgJ46w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *H
> >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?

I was cut off from C News sites, and from sites fed via C News sites.  That
didn't include the entire net. So I was lucky.  

The next person might not be so lucky.  In fact, there could
be people now connected to the net only via a route including a C News site;
those people could be having their postings dropped by C News, and they could
be completely unaware of it.

There's nothing YOU can do to find out whether this is the case.  It'll be
pure luck if they notice that something is amiss -- and it might be months
before they do notice.


mathew