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From: nagel@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: Problems posting to comp.sources.mac
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Date: 27 Apr 89 22:26:57 GMT
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In article <2765@carthage.cs.swarthmore.edu>, jackiw@cs (Nick Jackiw) writes:
|In article <1316@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> kenk@tellab5.UUCP (Ken Konecki) writes:
|> Hello everybody,
|> I've tried posting some stuff (twice) to comp.sources.mac and so far it
|> hasn't appeared (and I've waited 4 weeks). 
|> Any idea on why it hasn't shown up? Is there any
|> criteria for postings I'm not aware of?
|
|Posters to either of the moderated mac groups (binaries and sources) 
|should be aware that there is a lengthy backlog (measurable in months)...
|the moderator either finds himself somewhat (and understandably)
|overwhelmed, or he enforces  (for reasons unknown) a delay policy. Only
|important Virus information,  Apple technical information, and patches
|to major commercial software packages make it through with any rapidity.

I think the problem may be more than that.  I recently handled failed
mail to macintosh@felix.uucp through ucivax.  As is obvious from c.b.m
posts, the actual address is macintosh@dhw68k.uucp ==
macintosh@dhw68k.cts.com.  Apparently, when Roger left FileNet, they
kept an alias for forwarding mail to dhw68k.  The failed mail I
handled, however, had an error header saying that macintosh was an
unknown address at felix.  The real problem here is that the moderator
tables on backbone sites probably need to be updated to point to
macintosh@dhw68k.cts.com.  I have notified Roger of this problem and
asked him to take steps to correct it.

In the meantime, a workaround for this is to mail directly to the
correct address rather than posting to c.s.m or c.b.m.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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