cavanaug@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (John David Cavanaugh) (10/07/89)
I have a rather simple question. Why don't I see all the traffic in some news groups? A case in point is rec.folk-dancing. I'm subscribed to the group, and if I post an article there, it reaches the outside world, but the only articles I ever see there are the ones I post (I don't think anyone else at my site reads rec.folk-dancing). I know there's traffic, because Terry Wood is kind enough to bundle it all up once a week and send it out to a mailing list that I get. Why don't I see it with rn? A couple of other examples: In the current flame war over sci/rec.aquaria, someone mentioned that about 10 articles/day are posted to alt.aquaria. I haven't seen 10 articles there in the past year. And I haven't seen anything at all in rec.humor.funny since the great "offensive joke" war. I have seen references to it, but why don't I see the traffic? If someone could educate me, I'd appreciate it greatly. Please answer by e-mail, since I doubt this is of general interest. Thanks. -- John Cavanaugh John.Cavanaugh@StPaul.NCR.COM NCR Comten, Inc. (612) 638-2822 2700 Snelling Ave. N St. Paul, MN 55113 Standard disclaimer.
sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (10/12/89)
In article <1598@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> John.Cavanaugh@StPaul.NCR.COM (John Cavanaugh) writes: >I have a rather simple question. Why don't I see all the traffic in some >news groups? > >A case in point is rec.folk-dancing. I'm subscribed to the group, and if I >post an article there, it reaches the outside world, but the only articles I >ever see there are the ones I post (I don't think anyone else at my site >reads rec.folk-dancing). It could be that your system administrator doesn't subscribe your site to rec.folk-dancing The newsgroup would still exist on your machine, and if anybody posted any articles to newsgroups that your system did subscribe to, and CROSS posted those articles to rec.folk-dancing, then you would see those occasional articles appear in rec.folk-dancing. And you could post to rec.folk-dancing because the newsgroup *is* there, and it would be sent out to the rest of the world. I had the same trouble on this machine. I used to read misc.consumers.house but it really had low traffic. I would post messages there but not get any replies. When I asked about it, Steve, the system admin, told me that our system doesn't receive misc.* "What do you mean, I read the group!", I said "You are reading messages that have been crossposted TO that group from other Valid groups that we DO receive" he answered. Sure enough, I went back and looked at the newsgroups line in the articles in that group and they all had other newsgroups listed as well as misc.consumers.house. -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 Help fight continental drift.