Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: net.news.group Message-ID: <1151@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 12:47:16 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1151 Posted: Mon Nov 11 12:47:16 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:48:13 EST References: <376@ihdev.UUCP> <4494@alice.UUCP> <552@moncol.UUCP> <1097@jhunix.UUCP> <846@psivax.UUCP> Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 33 In article <846@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes: >In article <1097@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) writes: >>Furthermore, I am not permitted to read net.news.group, which means that the >>ONLY way I could read your posting about net.flame was in net.flame. This >>applies also to other postings not relating to net.flame that appeared >>in net.flame and net.news.group only. If net.flame is cut off, there will >>be no way I can read these postings. > I find this policy to be exceedingly *strange*! To allow >reading of pure noise groups like net.flame and *forbid* reading of >important administrative groups taht are critical to the proper >operation of the net is, to say the least, absurd, or even >inconsistant! > Would sending mail to the News Admin at John Hopkins help to >get a more rational policy? Or is there some other way we could >influence the News Admin to seriously reconsider this policy? I do not >see that it is proper to cripple your interaction with the net in this >manner. > Sarima (Stanley Friesen) As of now, access to net.news.group has been permitted. I am still, however, forbidden from seeing net.unix-wizards, net.sources and its subgroups, net.adm, net.bugs, net.games and its subgroups, and several subgroups of net.news that I probably wouldn't want to see but don't really know about because I can't see them. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'. Kenneth Arromdee BITNET: G46I4701 at JHUVM and INS_AKAA at JHUVMS CSNET: ins_akaa@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_akaa%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa ...allegra!hopkins!jhunix!ins_akaa