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From: karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu
Subject: Re: Learning about dropped articles
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.131040.12405@oar.net>
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dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk writes:
  >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.

This was why I made the *.test suggestion in the first place, since it
was my understanding, possibly erroneous, that the fundamental
objection came from Mathew's articles being dropped by his immediate
feed site, not sites N hops down the line.

--karl