Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Bug in moderated groups handling? Message-ID: <786@epimass.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 13:00:52 EST Article-I.D.: epimass.786 Posted: Wed Dec 31 13:00:52 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 20:55:32 EST References: <221@uniq.UUCP> <222@uniq.UUCP> <8076@gatech.EDU> <1599@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 29 Xref: mnetor news.software.b:161 news.admin:101 In article <8076@gatech.EDU>, spaf@gatech.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes: >> ...ihnp4 is not one of the backbone sites supporting the >> aliases for moderated groups. ...For the moment, you >> might want to one of these sites: cbatt, clyde, cuae2, gatech, seismo, >> sdcsvax, hao, uw-beaver and watmath. In article <1599@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >Now there are two classes of backbone sites? Ones that "do" and ones >that "don't"? Only your news links know for sure... :-; Your news links don't know either. The installation documentation says that "backbone" should be a mail path "to a Usenet backbone site". The only source of information anyone had on what a backbone site is is the backbone map occasionally posted by Gene. Really, Gene, how was anyone supposed to know which sites could be used for this purpose? Seems putting ihnp4 in that field was just obeying the instructions in the installation manual. Thanks for the list given above, but it doesn't look that official ("you might want to ..."). We news administrators need a regularly posted, official list so this scheme can work. Also, none of your listed sites are in the Bay Area, even though several moderators are. This will hardly promote efficient mail paths. -- - Joe Buck {hplabs,ihnp4,sun}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck HASA (A,S) Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California