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From: mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Bug in moderated groups handling?
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Date: Fri, 2-Jan-87 11:20:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  2 11:20:20 1987
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In article <786@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>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.

See the monthly message "How to construct the mailpaths file", posted
to news.lists.  It will always have the correct official list.

This posting didn't exist before, but Gene has been working on it for
several weeks, and the first posting occurred Jan 1.  It's message 19
on our system, and since news.lists is a new group, it's probably around
19 on yours, too.

By the way, according to the arbitron stats, only 58% of the sites are
getting news.lists - if your site isn't, check your active file, log
file, junk dir, and upstream, to find out why.  While you're at it, check
for mod.announce - the stats say only 94% of the sites are getting it.
There has been recent traffic in both (although mod.announce is very
low volume - 2 messages in December.)

	Mark