news@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush) (08/24/90)
For some weeks, we have been chasing a problem that bionet.* newsgroups being
gated to Usenet were not propagating. We have discovered the cause, very
unusual Distribution: lines on almost all of the messages.
Please please use the "world" distribution.
Over here, distributions such as eunet, bionet, ... are utterly unrecognized.
On Usenet, distributions are geographic, i.e. world,na,usa,pnw,or,pdx for
world, North America, United States, Pacific NorthWest, Oregon, and Portland.
Thank you.
randy
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..!{uunet,qiclab,intelhf}!m2xenix!newsroy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (08/25/90)
news@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush) writes: > Over here, distributions such as eunet, bionet, ... are utterly unrecognized. > On Usenet, distributions are geographic, i.e. world,na,usa,pnw,or,pdx for > world, North America, United States, Pacific NorthWest, Oregon, and Portland. Offhand, I would say that the sys file is set up improperly at your site, or at one of the sites in the chain that feeds you. Usenet, being the anarchy that it is, has distributions that are whatever people feel like using. Given that the bionet groups are at least nominally "owned" by the IG folks, it seems like it's up to them to pick the distribution code they are going to use and everybody else should just set up their sys files accordingly. Getting the sys file right is not really a big deal, although it can be a bit confusing. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"