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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news
Subject: Re: mod groups don't work -- here is someone else with a problem
Message-ID: <280@stl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 06:21:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 06:21:00 1986
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Summary: It works sometimes!

At last after many attempts, and hitting our local news administrator a few
times (no, not literally, he'd hit back!), I managed to get a message into
mod.computer.vax (the VAX table I promised people).  But since then I've had
my message (the same one, not re-mailings) returned 5 times from various places
in the ARPAnet as 'undeliverable' for various reasons.   
One objection to mod. groups is that messages from Europe have to cross the 
Atlantic twice - I didn't know the count was 7!  Is this sort of thing normal
on the ARPAnet?  It's certainly very confusing.  It probably explains why so
many people post the same message twice - they get the 'undelivered' massage
and believe it.