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- Path: sparky!uunet!valinor.mythical.com!stu
- From: stu@valinor.mythical.com (Stu Labovitz)
- Newsgroups: fl.news
- Subject: Re: uunet down
- Summary: Check your distributions!
- Keywords: uunet.status
- Message-ID: <8ZDLwB1w165w@valinor.mythical.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 05:05:42 CST
- References: <96wcwB2w165w@valinor.mythical.com>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: (What? Organized??) - Mythical Computer Systems
- Lines: 52
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- root@valinor.mythical.com (The Root of all Good) writes:
- > overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [Postmaster]) writes:
- > > Quoted from <1992Dec21.144204.24789@homebase.vistachrome.com> by andy@homeb
- > > > Path: rde!gator!uunet!not-for-mail
- > > > From: tamara@news1.UU.NET (Tamara S. Bowman)
- > > > Newsgroups: uunet.status
- > > > Subject: UUNET Ethernet Reorganization Sunday Dec. 20
- > > > Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:22:07 -0500
- > > > Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
- > > > Distribution: uunet
- > > That is strange, I subscribe to that group, but that never
- > > made it to my system. HHHmmmmmm.....
- > I, too, did not receive this posting, although we (supposedly) get
- > uunet.status here at this site.
-
- Dave Lawrence (uunet newsmaster (extraordinaire)) identified the problem
- with my SYS entry at UUNET. In email <9212291952.AA28020@rodan.UU.NET>
- he writes,
-
- ]The basis of the problem is here in the sys file:
- ]
- ]> uunet.announce,uunet.forum,uunet.status,uunet.tech,to.valinor:F
- ]
- ]And here in the article:
- ]
- ]> Newsgroups: uunet.status
- ]> Distribution: uunet
- ]
- ]The Distribution: header caused the article to not be forwarded
- ]to your site. It is arguably one of the most screwed up things
- ]about network news, and I am sorry to see that you got the
- ]short end of the stick about it. In the not too distant future
- ]I will be changing all of our feeds around to compensate for this
- ]relatively common case of a top level hierarchy name being used
- ]as a distribution. I've done it for yours now:
- ]
- ]valinor/valinor.mythical.com:\
- ]<...>
- ] uunet.announce,uunet.forum,uunet.status,uunet.tech,to.valinor/\
- ] biz,comp,fl,misc,na,neworleans,news,rec,sci,usa,uunet,world:F
-
- I would like to publicly thank Dave Lawrence for his diligent detective
- work in discovering the problem. Once again, the employees at UUNET has
- taken the time and effort to solve relatively obscure problems with my
- site's feed. Thanks, folks, and happy holidays!!!
-
- Stuart L Labovitz Internet: stu@valinor.mythical.com
- (insert standard disclaimer here) UUCP: uunet!valinor!stu
-
- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side,
- and it holds the universe together. --- Carl Zwanzig
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