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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Where is net.consumer.house?
Message-ID: <968@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Sun, 22-Jun-86 10:55:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: decuac.968
Posted: Sun Jun 22 10:55:47 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Jun-86 03:25:40 EDT
References: <45700001@hpccc> <426@meccts.UUCP>
Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD
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In article <426@meccts.UUCP>, ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron) writes:
> In article <45700001@hpccc> dlow@hpccc writes:
> >It has been about a month since these groups have been supposedly
> >created but I have seen neither one. 
> Although I have seen a number of messaages posted to the group
> net.consumers.house, they have all been rejected because a create
> group message never reached this site.  

We see more and more stuff like this.  We should add something to the
documentation to be distrubuted with the next version of news and add
some items in the mod.announce.newusers articles: "What to do if there
is trouble."

What you should do if you think you are not getting news you should
(such as create group control messages) is send mail to the news
administrator on your system who in turn should send mail to news
administrators on all systems that feed you.  And ask about it.  If
you are receiving news for a group that doesn't exist on your system,
for goodness sakes create the group locally!  I cannot imagine people
sitting out there, seeing news getting dumped in `junk' and saying
"Oh, well.  Guess there's nothing to do...  A newgroup message never
got here."


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Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center
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