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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: This bothers me a bit, so...
Message-ID: <743@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Dec-83 16:22:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 24 16:22:14 1983
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Having been involved in trying to track down a net problem (articles were
vanishing down a black hole), I can categorically state that there is a
need for net.test.  We (unc!bch, unc!bts, and myself) were trying to determine
why net.* articles from UNC weren't getting very far.  Using 'to.*' doesn't
help.  Nor, it turns out, did using net.test, since many sites weren't
propogating it.  In the end, we resorted to net.misc for a test message --
not out of ignorance, not out of malice, but simply because that was the
only way we had to duplicate the problem.