magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) (12/29/89)
In Article <8912210805.AA21185@nu.cs.fsu.edu> of news.newusers.questions, peterson@NU.CS.FSU.EDU (Eric J. Peterson) writes: >>I was wondering if there was an >>address at some site that I could mail my news postings to for distribution to >>get around my lack of posting access here. >The overwhelming majority of mail that I did receive was similar to the >following letter: > >From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) > >| For any groups that they carry, you can send mail to >| {groupnamealtered}@ucbvax.berkeley.edu with your article. [stuff deleted] >I received >another letter that stated that mailing to the name of the newsgroup (with >dots translated to hyphens) at ANY backbone site should work as well, but >your mileage may vary. A few letters stated that not all newsgroups >(notably the alt.* groups) could be reached through ucbvax. As stated above, ucbvax works for most newsgroups (this message was posted that way), but not for the alt.* hierarchy. I've also tried posting to alt.* groups via various backbone sites, but it didn't work. Does anyone out there know if there's any mail address one can use to post to alt.* groups? Magnus Olsson