mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) (11/19/84)
Well, the distribution feature seems to work fairly well; I'd like to thank all those who took the time to respond. I'd also like to apologize if my attempt at humor offended anyone (except Rich Rosen). Five sites reported that the article with the usa distribution did not show up: watcgl ecsvax sdcsvax cbosgd genrad Many more sites reported that both messages appeared. John Nelson at genrad reported that the article did not make it to his site; other sites indicated, however, that the article passed through genrad. Any comments, John? There appears to be a problem with godot. Every site that reported receiving the article downstream from harvard saw it pass AROUND godot, even though the no-distribution version passed straight on through. Since I received no messages at all from godot, I'm not sure that this is not a fluke. Could someone at godot please check to see if the article made it there? A few people checked their configuration and found that usa would not be recognized as a distribution. Perhaps the people at mod.newslists might want to list the major distributions. The following sites are known to have received the distribution article (NOT guaranteed to be complete!): dartvax harvard bbncca linus philabs hao cvl elsie utsally uwvax seismo fortune nsc decwrl amd amdcad decvax mit-eddie PLEASE do not send any more replies if you HAVE received both articles. Only reply if the article with the distributionof usa has not yet reached you. Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe
bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) (11/20/84)
I hadn't replied to your original survey, but since my machine was implicated by your recent message, I thought I'd check it out. Sure enough, I received both messages, but through different paths. Godot shuffles news among three neighbors: harvard, mit-eddie, and cirl. According to my logs, I passed the first message (with usa dist) on to just cirl, which seems correct since I got it from mit-eddie, and it had already been to harvard according to the path. The 2nd article was passed to both mit-eddie and cirl (I got it from harvard). Everything seems kosher here. >Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP >Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP >Path: godot!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe >From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) >Newsgroups: net.news >Subject: Possible problem with distribution feature >Message-ID: <1005@umcp-cs.UUCP> >Date: 12 Nov 84 04:36:36 GMT >Date-Received: 13 Nov 84 08:23:20 GMT >Distribution: usa >Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD >Lines: 14 >Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP >Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP >Path: godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe >From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) >Newsgroups: net.news >Subject: Distribution test part 2 >Message-ID: <1006@umcp-cs.UUCP> >Date: 12 Nov 84 04:39:35 GMT >Date-Received: 12 Nov 84 12:32:40 GMT >Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD >Lines: 14 -- --Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn@mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce@godot.arpa