root@nebulus (Dennis S. Breckenridge) (12/08/89)
I have tried to contact (no pun intended) someone at Contact Public Access Unix to ask them to fix the postings from thier machine. I have had no luck. They are posting with a blank distribution so I cannot trap incoming messages from their private newsgroups. I have banged out camelot and general here on all of my downstream sites but it appears that news is leaking off nebulus and corrupting the net. Contact, if you are listening, Please stop feeding me general and camelot. I have sent several mail messages to your machine but I have not recieved a single reply. Please fix your news software to add the default group of local ot keep local issues on your machine. I have noticed that your subject field is usually blank as well. It appears that the news software your are using is broken in several places. Thank you ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME: Dennis S. Breckenridge UUCP: uunet!tmsoft!nebulus!dennis QTH: Toronto, Canada ELECTROMAGNETIC: 145.03Mhz ve3gss@ve3gss AMPR.ORG: [44.135.88.54] THE RIGHT CHIOCE?: (416) 733-1696 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME: Dennis S. Breckenridge UUCP: uunet!tmsoft!nebulus!dennis QTH: Toronto, Canada ELECTROMAGNETIC: 145.03Mhz ve3gss@ve3gss AMPR.ORG: [44.135.88.54] THE RIGHT CHIOCE?: (416) 733-1696 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
smarry@contact.uucp (Marc Moorcroft) (12/09/89)
After a few tests, I am reasonably sure that the news propagation problems at Contact are fixed. It has become clear that alpha C News (our version at least) requires that !'d out groups be before the "/" in the <newsgroups>/<distributions> field in the sys file, and that !'d out distributions come after it. Apologies to all (particularly Dennis) who were inconvenienced/annoyed by the leakage of news from Contact. Marc EM -- Entity about the system on Contact