Newsgroups: tor.news
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tmsoft!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Subject: don't forget tor.news.stats
Date: Fri, 9-Sep-88 15:50:22 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Sep9.155024.4475@lsuc.uucp>
Distribution: tor
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto

Does anyone read tor.news.stats on a regular basis?

This is a reminder that it's there to examine when your feed
dries up. Sites in Toronto are supposed to forward it to other
uucp sites, specifically including those that they don't have
news connections to.  That way, if site x feeds y, and y's
news users wonder why there's suddenly no news, they can examine
recent tor.news.stats postings (arriving from site z) and
quickly determine whether x is getting news and not sending it
on, or not getting it at all.  The major news relay sites should
be posting there.  It's useful for tracking adequacy and frequency
of people's mail connections, too.

Someone's suggested that the date be included in the Subject: header
for lsuc's postings.  I prefer not to, since if I do find myself
reading t.n.s., I can more easily skip what I don't want with rn's
k command.  Anyone care either way about this major burning issue?
(Certainly seems worth starting a major flame war about.)

David Sherman
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