david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron) (11/28/84)
Hello, I am new to the net so forgive my ignorance. Apparently the
net had done some changing since the documentation I have was written.
What is all this stuff about moderated newsgroups, distributions, etc.
I have seen enough to know basically what they are, but lack some specifics.
For instance, my software here will (I think) allow me to post to a
"moderated" newsgroup. So much for security, right? wrong? (No, it
doesn't. Just tried it.) But at any rate, I haven't gotten anything
come through on mod.* except a few test messages a couple weeks ago.
Are things going out to mod.* newsgroups? If so, do I need to get on
the people upstream to get them to feed it on down?
Distributions. Are they only something in 2.10.2? Are you supposed
to be able to say "usa.religion" and have a message appear as "net.religion"
but only on sites in usa? Or is it just a newsgroup, and everybody that
connects to foreign sites agree not to forward usa.*?
Are these things that are currently in force? Or is it just something
being worked on currently? (Lots of questions and no answers.)
AD(I thank you all)VANCE
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David Herron (University of Kentucky Department of Mathatical Sciences)
Phone: (606) 257-4244 (phone will be answered as "Vax Lab", usually).
(606) 254-7820
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For arpa-net, anlams has the name ANL-MCS. (i.e. use "ukma!david"@ANL-MCS).chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) (12/02/84)
In article <326@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron) writes: >Hello, I am new to the net so forgive my ignorance. Apparently the >net had done some changing since the documentation I have was written. > >But at any rate, I haven't gotten anything >come through on mod.* except a few test messages a couple weeks ago. >Are things going out to mod.* newsgroups? If so, do I need to get on >the people upstream to get them to feed it on down? Moderated groups are still somewhat experimental. We have found that certain areas of the network do not receive them reliably, and I am trying to track down and resolve these 'black holes'. There is minimal mod.all traffic right now simply because they aren't completely reliable yet. >Distributions. Are they only something in 2.10.2? Are you supposed >to be able to say "usa.religion" and have a message appear as "net.religion" >but only on sites in usa? Or is it just a newsgroup, and everybody that >connects to foreign sites agree not to forward usa.*? No, they were in 2.10.2, it is just that until 2.10.2 they weren't fully supported. You should post to 'mod.religion' with a distribution of 'usa', not 'usa.religion'. The 2.10.2 postnews makes this an easy thing to do. The forwarding is done both by newsgroup and distribution, and a message needs to have both to get forwarded. Foreign sites won't support usa, so they won't see anything posted with that distribution. >Are these things that are currently in force? Or is it just something >being worked on currently? (Lots of questions and no answers.) Distribtions: yes. Moderated groups: kinda. The documentation probably should get upgraded, but unfortunately usenet is mostly a volunteer effort and we haven't found the time for that. Until we can get moderated groups working and be sure that we want them to work permanently it makes sense to not update the documents on them. I think they will, but there is still work to be done to get them working right... chuq -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~