Xref: utzoo news.admin:15426 news.software.b:8383 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Learning about dropped articles Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 13:57:35 GMT References: <1991Jun20.185842.19897@ibmpcug.co.uk> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 27 dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes: > In article Giving C News a *HUG* >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 si > >> >those people could be having their postings dropped by C News, and they c > >> >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'. [...] > 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. Indeed. My purpose above was to explain why misc.test was not generally a valid way of checking for connection. Of course for *some* people it is adequate, I'm not disputing that. mathew