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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.sources.amiga
Message-ID: <1280@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 20:21:33 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1280
Posted: Thu Jan 22 20:21:33 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Jan-87 21:14:49 EST
References: <2950@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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In article <2950@j.cc.purdue.edu> doc@j.cc.purdue.edu (Craig Norborg) writes:
>
>    Here is the word from my news administrator.  I have informed Larry
>Wall also, so everything should work itself out.  If you do not have
>the newsgroup comp.sources.amiga on your machine, please ask your news
>administrator to create the group.  The mod.*.amiga groups are no
>longer functional and you should not expect to recieve any news in
>these groups.
>	Craig Norborg

Sorry Craig, but somebody's confused here:

The comp.sources.amiga group doesn't exist.  It's not on the official list
of groups distributed monthly to the news.admin group.  This means that even
if one locally creates it, there is no distribution and no news will appear.

The mod.sources.amiga group does exist on much of the net and is still on the
official list of groups.  This means that if you manage to successfully post
news to this group, then it *should* arrive throughout most of the net.

Obviously there is some problem, or you wouldn't be gaining this 'black hole'
reputation.  I suspect that somehow postings to mod.sources.amiga from your
site are not making it out to the net.  Peeking at the net maps, purdue
only exchanges news with a few sites, none of them backbones.  Someone is
not passing your postings on...

What to do?  Arrange for pur-ee to feed just your newsgroup to a backbone
site that you talk to!  Maybe send a message to mark@cbosgd (Mark Horton).
If this fails, setting up limited feeds to a couple of sites, with some
commitment to the amiga, would provide enough redundancy to insure your
postings get out.  cbmvax could do this, although we're trying to keep a
low profile, and I suspect hoptoad could be persuaded also.

Comments on this are welcome, but the details are best handled via e-mail.
Any other volunteers to help with distribution?  Helps to be news admin...
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)