jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (01/08/90)
I am puzzled about the distribution of news.announce.newgroups. When I had the original call for votes posted I got very few replies; I didn't post this myself, so I don't know exactly how it was done - mailing to the moderator? My second call for votes, done by invoking "postnews", got a flood of replies from all over the globe; it must have got much wider distribution. But my final summary of the vote (it passed 267 to 17) didn't even reach Greg Woods; I posted it by the same method. Did anyone outside Scotland see it? There is some oddity at ukc that occasionally gives bogus error messages about postings to moderated groups that have in fact succeeded. It kept quiet for all these, though. What's going on? Is there some link that eats messages to or from this group? Did my description of the geographical spread of the vote (posted to news.groups and other places NOT including news.announce.newgroups) get through? -- Jack Campin * Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND. 041 339 8855 x6044 wk 041 556 1878 ho INTERNET: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk USENET: jack@glasgow.uucp JANET: jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs PLINGnet: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack