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From: mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Why aren't we fixing these bugs instead of staving off the inevitable?
Message-ID: <2957@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 19:19:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  6 19:19:45 1986
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In article <406@maynard.UUCP> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>This isn't meant as a flame at anyone -- I'm sure the maintainers of
>the news software are putting in far more work than we have any right
>to expect -- but I sure wish 2.11 had been distributed before the
>reorganization started.

We planned to do that.  The plan was to wait for 2.11 to finish being
posted, and the message I put in mod.announce warning what had happened
if a news system had suddenly broken, and THEN the big batch of newgroups
for comp and news would go out.

What happened is that an SA fumbled his fingers and sent out the newgroups
before they were supposed to go out.  We found out about it within a few
hours, and did what we could to stop the newgroups.  It turned out that
most of the San Francisco Bay Area was demolished, and a few other parts
of the country were hit (mostly in New York and New Jersey), but the
damage was mostly confined to those areas.

One of the problems with the old news software is that it made it too
easy for someone to accidently clobber the net.  2.11 sites were not
bothered at all by the bogus newgroups.

In any case, 2.11 posting was paused until the dust settled from the
quake, and now it's been resumed.

	Mark