[news.admin] empty newsgroups

jholland@uvicctr.UUCP (03/23/87)

   Some of my favourite newsgroups have had no articles make it to our site
(uvicctr) for months.  Our system administrator feels some essential piece
of software may have been lost during the transition last November.  Our news
from the US comes from uw-beaver through ssc-vax.  Enquiries seem to show 
similar problems at ssc-vax.  The empty newsgroups that I know of are:

	mod.computers.macintosh
	mod.mac
	mod.mac.sources
	mod.mac.binaries
	comp.sources.mac
	mod.risks
	
Does anybody know why many receive articles with no problem but some receive
nothing?  Please reply to {ubc-vision|uw-beaver}!uvicctr!jholland

jholland@uvicctr.UUCP (03/23/87)

One clue to the empty newsgroups at UVic is that an article I posted to 
comp.sources.mac received no replies.  I would guess that no articles are
getting out as well as no articles coming in for the empty newsgroups.

-=-

John Holland, UVic Computing Services  {ubc-vision|uw-beaver}!uvicctr!jholland

berger@datacube.UUCP (03/25/87)

Reception of mod.mac.sources has been spotty of late. I'm still
waiting for parts 2 and 3 of the macdraw to imagen program!
				Bob Berger 

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fair@UCBARPA.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. Fair) (04/09/87)

In article <241@uvicctr.UUCP> you write:
>   Some of my favourite newsgroups have had no articles make it to our site
>(uvicctr) for months.  Our system administrator feels some essential piece
>of software may have been lost during the transition last November.  Our news
>from the US comes from uw-beaver through ssc-vax.  Enquiries seem to show 
>similar problems at ssc-vax.  The empty newsgroups that I know of are:

mod.computers.macintosh		- dead newsgroup, replaced with mod.mac
mod.mac				- gatewayed from INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
mod.risks			- gatewayed from RISKS@SRI-KL.ARPA

If you are not getting mod.mac or mod.risks, check the "sys" files of
your netnews neighbors; these newsgroups are active, and are sent with
a Distribution header that reads "world". If "world" is not in the
"sys" files of each of your USENET neighbors between your site and
ucbvax, you will not get the articles.

	keeper of the network news on ucbvax,

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu