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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: I'm learning why nobody likes mod groups (NOT unreliable mail)
Message-ID: <1959@glacier.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 03:55:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 03:55:54 1985
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Reply-To: reid@glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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Mr. De Graaf misunderstood my message about missing mod groups. I am the
moderator of mod.recipes. Mail from me to myself was certainly not lost.
However, 9 of the 12 messages that I posted to ordinary netnews were lost
somewhere in nsc-->ihnp4-->qantel. [I haven't been able to raise any
response from people on those machines to help me diagnose what went wrong].
The 3 messages that got through were not even contiguous.

The mod-group distribution problem has nothing to do with lost mail. It has
to do with lost news articles. I have seen this a lot in mod.sources, and I
have now seen it in spades in mod.recipes.

I actually believe that the very future of usenet depends on moderated
groups, which is one of the reasons I am willing to work at setting up a new
one that will (I hope) be of high quality and significant usefulness. Rather
than using this as an argument against moderated groups, let's use it as a
war-cry against buggy software. Hello nsc? Hello inhp4? Hello qantel?
Can anybody there do a little poking in your news directories for me?
-- 
	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA