Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!wnp
From: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What happened to comp.unix.microport ?
Summary: It is still alive!
Keywords: microport
Message-ID: <3173@killer.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 04:39:02 GMT
References: <469@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <469@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
=>
=>    What happened to comp.unix.microport ?  I havn't seen anything in
=>several weeks. Furthermore, I've tried sending direct Email to the
=>moderator only to have it bounced back many days later saying that the
=>host hasn't been heard from in "x" days and is thought to be dead.
=>What gives here ?  Geez, I've been pumping out postings and information
=>that I've come across that would be of interest to the general Microport
=>user population and its dissappearing into space. I'm certainly not
=>flaming the moderator, its not his fault the path is down, but what steps
=>do we the users of comp.unix.microport have to take to have the newsgroup
=>become un-moderated ?  I understood at one time it had to do with volume
=>of usage; well recently Im sure this is bordering 0% because of this
=>path problem.

I recently spoke with John Plocher (the comp.unix.microport moderator),
and he said he had discovered that a machine two nodes along the path
had collected all his outgoing stuff -- including a request to the
backbone to make the group unmoderated.

So, he's working on it, and as soon as he finds another link to replace
the one that's not working, things should be fine.

Wolf Paul
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