root@lgnp1.LS.COM (Super user) (01/23/90)
hello netlanders, i'd like to post this article to thank all who have responded to my request for help/advice with usenet politics. i received a slew of mail in response to my previous posting and ALL of it contained responses such as "his software is severely broken" or "sounds like he is mis-managing a mail list or e-mail to news gateway". -- i knew his software/configuration is hosed [slightly], THAT IS WHY I WAS ASKING FOR HELP WITH ``NET POLITICS''. as i stated in my last posting i am having a problem with chem.ecsd.edu reposting news articles. this site/domain reposts any and all articles posted pubnet.nixpub. i mentioned that i had been in contact with the admin for the offending site and he told me that he could only correct the problem if the site stopped forwarding the group. he explained that apparently some site thinks that this pubnet.nixpub is moderated and his site just re-acting. at his suggestion, i sent out several control messages (over the course of the last month) -- this, of course, did not solve anything. the group is NOT moderated and shouldn't be marked as such. i am sure this would be a much more pressing issue if the problem group were in comp, news, rec ... but it is not. my question is what do i do at this point?? i could continue to ask the admin out there to fix it, i could find some governing usenet body -- i have never heard of one but maybe i have missed something, i could just put up with it, or i could stop posting my lists to that group. any ideas ?? -- Phil Eschallier System Administration for lgnp1 -- Mail/News gateway for LS.COM ARPA: root@LS.COM UUCP: ...!uunet!lgnp1!root
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (01/25/90)
In article <5303@lgnp1.LS.COM> root@lgnp1.LS.COM (Super user) writes: |[...] |as i stated in my last posting i am having a problem with chem.ecsd.edu |reposting news articles. this site/domain reposts any and all articles posted |pubnet.nixpub. i mentioned that i had been in contact with the admin for the |offending site and he told me that he could only correct the problem if the |site stopped forwarding the group. he explained that apparently some site |thinks that this pubnet.nixpub is moderated and his site just re-acting. at |his suggestion, i sent out several control messages (over the course of the |last month) -- this, of course, did not solve anything. the group is NOT |moderated and shouldn't be marked as such. As far as I know the result of a moderated group is to mail the article to the moderator, usually via a backbone site (unless they're running News 2.10 or something). If some site erroneously has "pubnet.nixpub" marked moderated, they would mail posted articles to "uunet!pubnet-nixpub", or to the site that's listed as "backbone" in the mailpaths file. There's no way it should get reposted unless somebody's software is broken somewhere. Either the admin at the offending site has configured things wrong, or else he should be trying to help find out the name of "some site" by sending you the information from the "Path:" header line of some selected "pubnet.nixpub" articles from his site. You might try to arrange this with him and then post a test article or 2. It may be that someone downstream has hacked news on a personal machine and hasn't quite understood how it all works in every detail... Good luck, -- ,,,, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \$$/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/c/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _/ >_ "Money is the root of all money" - Adam