ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr17.194253.7117@eve.wright.edu> tmcclory@eve.wright.edu (Tom McClory) writes: >Test Let me emphasize that I don't want to blame the sender of this or any other test messages by my posting. I just want to recount for us all some thoughts on how to best get our posting facilities tested. 16. ***** Q: Where to put test postings? A: Please don't take offence by this item. It is meant as a friendly piece of advice, not as a flame. Novice users, and sometimes even others, occasionally place these "A test, please ignore" messages in discussion newsgroups. Please don't do this. It is wasteful of the resources. These news reach tens of thousands of readers, so a very wide distribution is involved. Furthermore, many users find the test messages a very annoying in the discussion newsgroups, and you have a good change of getting some testy email. There is a much better solution for the testing. There are special test newsgroups just for this purpose, such as alt.test and misc.test. The misc.test is a good option, since there are several test echos along the feed. They will automatically send you email acknowledgements when your test posting reaches these sites. One more piece of advice on test posting. Don't start with a "world" distribution right away. First consider experimenting with "local", and think of expanding only after that, if this is still necessary. If you look at the header of a UseNet posting, you'll notice that it includes the a line for distribution. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun