ruck@sphere.UUCP (John R Ruckstuhl Jr) (06/01/90)
I've recently had to diagnose an incomplete feed -- it turns out that an upstream neighbor had correct sys-file entries (verified by the useful "sendsys" control message) but didn't have some newsgroups properly "active"-ated. It was tough to track this down with my level of (in)experience. Apparently, News (all versions?) will junk articles posted singly to inactive groups, and not forward them. I wish there was a control-message analogous to "sendsys" which could grab a copy of neighbors' active-files. Gurus ask: "why post something so conspicuous?" Because another neighbor corresponded to me: > I hadn't thought of the problem being in the 'active' file. I > could only think in terms of the 'sys' file. Why don't you post an > article about what you found and perhaps some other people will be able > to get feeds from sites which think that they are passing them on since > they too will be thinking in terms of the 'sys' files, not 'active'. (I post to unix-pc.general also, because unix-pc newsgroups are particularly susceptible to incomplete feeding) -- John R Ruckstuhl, Jr UUCP: sphere!ruck DOMAIN: ruck%sphere@hp-lsd.cos.hp.com