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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: <N4Ju41w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 20 Jun 91 15:41:22 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
> In article <eXHs49w164w@mantis.co.uk> Giving C News a *HUG* <mathew@mantis.co
> >             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 coul
> >be completely unaware of it.
> 
> If this were true, then articles to misc.test wouldn't get out.

Suppose there happens to be a path from your machine to somewhere in
California, *not* going via C News.  Suppose your path to most other places
*is* via one or more C News sites.

You can post to misc.test and get replies from sites thousands of miles away. 
But 90% of the net might not be receiving your postings.  And if you're new
to the net, you probably have no idea how many replies misc.test ought to net
you.

Besides, as has been pointed out already, requiring everyone to post to
misc.test periodically isn't a very good solution to the problem.


mathew