[news.groups] lost postings to a newgroup

ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) (12/16/89)

Recently, several people have told me of postings to "comp.sys.isis"
that showed up on the system of the sender, but never seem to have
gotten anyplace else (I have one example that originated in San Diego,
another from someplace in Norway).  The people involved saw other
postings to comp.sys.isis and other groups; however, nobody ever
saw their posting show up at other sites.

Can anyone explain the conditions under which a posting might be
lost in this manner?

The group is unmoderated, although most postings originate at Cornell
and I have no evidence that any Cornell posting was ever lost...

Please reply directly to me; I don't follow news.groups closely.

Ken Birman