Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!noao!amd!amdcad!decwrl!sun!idi!saber!msc From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news Subject: Re: mod groups don't work -- here is someone else with a problem Message-ID: <1934@saber.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 13:39:23 EST Article-I.D.: saber.1934 Posted: Fri Feb 21 13:39:23 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 06:28:13 EST References: <478@kepler.UUCP> <247@maynard.UUCP> <9177@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: Saber Technology, San Jose, CA Lines: 58 Xref: linus net.news.group:4454 net.news:3839 > I keep getting mail about ``why don't you update your moderators file''? > To stave off further mail -- I think that my moderators file is just > fine. And I still can't follow-up an article in mod.computers.workstations > and get the article sent to the moderator. > > > >From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) > Newsgroups: net.news.b > Subject: Re: Proposed new mechanism for posting to moderated groups > > > > BUT for the six months since then, I have NEVER succeded in posting ANYTHING > to mod.computer.anything. Initially the new moderators had been left out of > the local tables, but since then the problem has been getting to .ARPA. I > cannot. No Way. Yes yes I know there are routes to seismo etc. which get > gatewayed into .ARPA (indeed I used to get them to work 1/2 the time once). > But now all local .ARPA traffic gets routed via the UK Usenet-ARPA gateway, > and I (or maybe this site?) am "not authorised" to post through that gateway. > And because my mail has to go through 2-3 "intelligent" mail routers to get > out of the UK, all attemps to 'get round' the UK problem are either re-routed > to the UK gateway or else returned as "unknown domain". > > > > If it is not possible to route all moderator's mail via the backbone > sites then can an alternative "pure" uucp address be given for all > moderators, presumably 'aliassed' via a suitable ARPA route at some > site which CAN get to the gateways? This would be REALLY HELPFUL. > ------------------- > There is a "pure" uucp address to an arpa site. It is of the form your!path!to!seismo!somewhere.arpa!someone I think this would make it through any intelligent router unchanged except perhaps to optimize the path to seismo. Only a gateway would bother to decode the somewhere.arpa. At least 2 gateways, seismo and ucbvax, understand this address syntax. Of course .arpa doesn't really exist anymore. It's more like ".edu" or ".gov" these days. Instructions for all this are given in the moderators file posted every month by gatech!spaf. I've never had any trouble posting to the moderators, though I do subscribe mostly to usenet based groups. However I have sucessfully posted to mod.telecom (an arpa based group) by simply using postnews. My article got sent to the right place. I run news 2.10.2. The problem I have with the mod groups is replying the the author of a given article using the 'r' command. This is an impossible problem with digests which is only one reason why I dislike them. With non- digested mod groups it depends on the moderator. Some take care to see that the "From:" line reflects the author. With some it always shows the moderator's address. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@saber.uucp, sun!saber!msc@decwrl.dec.com ...{ihnp4,sun}!saber!msc "Boards are long and hard and made of wood"