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- Path: soap.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet
- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help: News Posting
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 03:00:37
- Organization: Private node.
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960310.6A65C0.3174@an075.du.pipex.com>
- References: <406.6643T251T2505@ritsec1.com.eg>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: an075.du.pipex.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0]
-
- Tarek Yassin (poshouse@ritsec1.com.eg) wrote:
- : I wonder why my postings to any news group do not show-up except on this news
- : server (news.csra.net). I can not figure out how to make the message spread to
- : all the other servers (if applicable). I guess the only thing you need to know
- : is that I am using AmiTCP 4.0 Demo and THOR 2.22 Evaluation copy.
-
- Make sure you set the Distribution: line to "world" (as above). I'm not sure
- how many NNTP servers actually take any notice of this line, but it may be
- part of your troubles.
-
- (I remember having this exact same problem on a different NNTP server from the
- one I'm using now. Setting Distribution: properly fixed it. Now I just play
- things safe and get my newsreader to add it automatically).
-
- -- Mat.
-