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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bounced messages from uunet -- what's goin on?
Summary: Yep, that was the problem
Keywords: uunet, bounce
Message-ID: <899@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 15:45:31 GMT
References: <889@flatline.UUCP> <592@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Organization: a flat near the Montrose, Houston, Tx.
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In article <592@cbnews.ATT.COM>, mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
| 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.

Bingo.  Newsfeed was intermittent for a long period of time.  I had
both groups marked as moderated.

Sorry for the trouble, if it caused any.
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