Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Non-human posters
Message-ID: <1988Jan21.134246.19969@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <575@ambush.UUCP> <2324@terminus.UUCP>, <2348@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Jan-88 13:42:33 EST

> 	Well, going on for at least three years, Claude, a [now] 6-year
> old orange tiger cat has been posting a test article every morning to
> a local test newsgroup group in the Buffalo, NY area.

Many of the major Toronto-area news sites automatically post daily status
reports to a local-only newsgroup, to make it easier for people to track
down feed problems.  The contents are decidedly boring.

There is also utzoo's old automatic replier, which mails an acknowledgement
whenever utzoo receives an article in misc.test.  I'm actually contemplating
discontinuing that, since one of our major feed paths these days is via a
peculiar hookup that doesn't pass mail nearly as well as it passes news.
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