Xref: utzoo news.admin:15401 news.software.b:8373 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!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: <1991Jun20.185842.19897@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 20 Jun 91 18:58:42 GMT References: <1991Jun19.135412.21135@ibmpcug.co.uk> Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 29 In article Giving C News a *HUG* writes: >dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes: >> In article Giving C News a *HUG* > > 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. Umm, thats not what you said. You said 'connected to the net only via a route including a C news site'. That means (taking a completely random example) mantis!ibmpcug!slxsys!ukc!... and this is the one path that mantis has to the net. If you were generating bad articles, then none of those articles would get past us. You didn't say 'most other places' the first time, you said 'only via a route including a C news site'. So therefore for this hypothetical-person-at-the-end-of-the-line, posting articles to misc.test *would* be a valid way of seeing if they were connected. Dylan. -- Matthew J Farwell: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk || ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan But you're wrong Steve. You see, its only solitaire.