Xref: utzoo news.admin:15369 news.software.b:8347 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!dylan From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Learning about dropped articles Message-ID: <1991Jun19.135412.21135@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 19 Jun 91 13:54:12 GMT References: <18523@celit.fps.com> Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 24 In article Giving C News a *HUG* writes: >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. If this were true, then articles to misc.test wouldn't get out. Dylan. -- Matthew J Farwell: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk || ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan But you're wrong Steve. You see, its only solitaire.