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From: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Distribution
Message-ID: <269@tmsoft.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 16:11:23 GMT
References: <4418@mnetor.UUCP> <2100@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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In article <2100@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <4418@mnetor.UUCP>, lazer@mnetor.UUCP (Lazer Danzinger) writes:
>#> 	There have been apparently a number of postings in scj, which
>#> 	have not managed successfully to make their way up to the
>#> 	frosty lands of Canada. 
>	Rest assured that you are not the only one suffering from netnews
>anomalies on soc.culture.jewish.  I am seeing a similar effect here in
>sunny, warm Chicago.

Unfortunately not every site carries every group.  I don't know if
what I'm about to say applies to scj, but it must at least be
perceived as so (or it's a case of anti-Semitism 1/2 :-).

Many of the high volume soc, talk (and maybe rec) groups are not
carried by the backbone.  This means that there are large parts of the
net which don't get them.  Let's not get into value judgements here,
it costs money, and some can't justify it on these groups.

The solution is (as at least one local site (lsuc) has done) to bring
in your special interest newsgroups from other interested sites.
Advertise in some appropriate group ?news.groups?news.admin? that you
are interested in moving e.g. *.jewish.* long distance, and from the
responses you get establish an alternate backbone.  I suspect no one
(or not many) will complain about moving these groups around over
local calls... it's the long distance that hurts, so you should be
able to get reasonable net coverage.
	../Dave