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From: mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bounced messages from uunet -- what's goin on?
Keywords: uunet, bounce
Message-ID: <592@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 88 17:33:44 GMT
References: <889@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <889@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>|550 comp-std-misc... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>|550 comp-std-c... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device

It's because flatline seems to think comp.std.misc and comp.std.c are
moderated groups.  Both have been changed to unmoderated.  Control
messages were sent around changing them, but flatline is apparently
either running some old software that doesn't understand how to
change mod to unmod, or else isn't getting news reliably.

If everyone would take a minute to do
	!egrep "^comp.std" /usr/lib/news/active
and see if there's a "y" or "m" at the ends of these two newsgroups,
you'd do the net a big favor.  These groups should say "y", not "m".
Just editing the file with a text editor will fix your one site.

You have no idea how much mail is flooding into cbosgd aimed at these
two newsgroups.  The ones with bogus return addresses get dumped into
my mailbox.  I finally got sick of it and pointed them at /dev/null.
Poor old OSGD would sure appreciate it if you'd take the load off.
Not to mention the extra error messages that will crop up July 1
when the external links go away.

	Mark