Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!philabs!spies!ssdis!gsarff
From: gsarff@ssdis.UUCP (gary sarff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's with comp.sys.amiga.tech?
Message-ID: <131@ssdis.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 00:42:49 GMT
References: <571@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: W.O.V.S.E.D.
Lines: 43
Summary: comp.sys.amiga.tech gone? nah couldn't be

In article <571@hub.ucsb.edu>, hbo@hub.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen) writes:
> 
>    I recently had the following exchange of messages with the administrator
> of my newsfeed. I wonder if anyone else is having difficulty receiving 
> comp.sys.amiga.tech? His reply (+) follows my question (++).
> 
> 
> +On 20 April an  rmgroup control message was  sent out across  the
> +usenet  which  automatically  removed  the  "comp.sys.amiga.tech"
> +group from  all sites.    These are  common messages  which  come
> +through every week or so telling our news system to clean up  its
> +act -- they originate at the mythical "backbone" sites which have
> +been exerting pressure on the usenet in recent months.
> +
> +In any case, the newsgroup is gone  and we have not the power  to
> +resurrect it.
> +
> +Sorry,
> +Tom
That is strange.  I am very near a backbone, only 1 jump from it and I
still have comp.sys.amiga.tech and so does the system that I poll that has
a direct link.  Maybe this Tom owns an Atari or is a Messy Dos'er?
Anyway, my logs don't show getting such an rmgroup message, maybe it was
only on your branch of the net, somewhere upstream someone turned off the
faucet. 8-)  


I need these blank lines cause my stupid postnews won't let me respond
with a message shorter than the one I'm responding too.  sheesh.  We all
have our Usenet problems.








-- 
Gary Sarff           {uunet|ihnp4|philabs}!spies!ssdis!gsarff
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