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From: netnews@wnuxb.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: missing mod articles
Message-ID: <338@wnuxb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 13:57:13 EST
Article-I.D.: wnuxb.338
Posted: Thu Dec 20 13:57:13 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:31:44 EST
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It has been a while now since the majority of the mod groups have been created.
It is beginning to look as though either many of them are a failure or there
is a problem.  I suspect the latter.  My site has been receiving mod articles
in some of the newsgroups but not in others.  This looks to me not to be
caused entirely on missing "mod" in sys files.  In particular, some articles
have been arriving that traversed the path:
... -> cbosgd -> ihnp4 -> mgnetp -> hw3b -> wnuxb.  However, we have received
none of the mod.maps.news postings except the Intro messages where were also
posted to net.news.map.  Here is the portion of my active file showing the
mod groups.
  mod.movies 00016 00013 y
  mod.music 00000 00001 y
  mod.singles 00019 00019 y
  mod.sources 00015 00010 y
  mod.unix 00000 00001 y
  mod.std 00000 00001 y
  mod.motss 00027 00027 y
  mod.newslists 00024 00011 y
  mod.map.news 00002 00002 y
  mod.map.uucp 00000 00001 y
  mod.map 00000 00001 y
  mod.std.c 00000 00001 y
  mod.std.mumps 00000 00001 y
  mod.test 00002 00002 y
As you can see, we have been receiving articles for only a handful of the
groups, in particular mod.movies, mod.singles, mod.sources, mod.motss, and
mod.newslists.  Are the others actually silent (I can't believe that
mod.map.news is.) or is there some weird problem.  The two sites between
me and ihnp4 is my only feed, so if someone had a bad sys file (I looked
and they seemed ok.) I shouldn't be getting any, right?  Any news wizards
out there have any ideas?  Thanks much.
-- 
Ronald W. Heiby
AT&T Something (used to be Comp Sys Div, but don't ask me now.), Inc.
Lisle, IL  (CU-D21) / ...!ihnp4!wnuxa!heiby or ...!ihnp4!wnuxb!netnews