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From: fair@UCBARPA.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: empty newsgroups
Message-ID: <8704090718.AA24573@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 02:18:28 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbarpa.8704090718.AA24573
Posted: Thu Apr  9 02:18:28 1987
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In article <241@uvicctr.UUCP> you write:
>   Some of my favourite newsgroups have had no articles make it to our site
>(uvicctr) for months.  Our system administrator feels some essential piece
>of software may have been lost during the transition last November.  Our news
>from the US comes from uw-beaver through ssc-vax.  Enquiries seem to show 
>similar problems at ssc-vax.  The empty newsgroups that I know of are:

mod.computers.macintosh		- dead newsgroup, replaced with mod.mac
mod.mac				- gatewayed from INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
mod.risks			- gatewayed from RISKS@SRI-KL.ARPA

If you are not getting mod.mac or mod.risks, check the "sys" files of
your netnews neighbors; these newsgroups are active, and are sent with
a Distribution header that reads "world". If "world" is not in the
"sys" files of each of your USENET neighbors between your site and
ucbvax, you will not get the articles.

	keeper of the network news on ucbvax,

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu