The Introduction to the *.answers newsgroups article lists a number of
sites where *.answers postings are being archived outside the United
States (other than the ones you mention). I don't know if any of them
will be more "connected" to Australia or New Zealand than U.S. sites,
but you should take a look there. As always, if you or anyone else
find out about any other sites which make *.answers postings
available, please inform us at news-answers-request@mit.edu.
The Introduction also answers your second question, since some of the
sites listed are servers for gopher or WWW rather than anonymous FTP
or mail server sites only.
> 3) If you make a mistake in the archive-name line that results in
> incorrect archiving (like I just did), can it be fixed by anything
> short of a complete reposting? Could I have fixed it by just
> reposting the incorrect parts to news.answers? What I did was to
> repost with supersede to wipe-out the versions with the wrong
> archive-names, but that seemed like overkill.
Simple fix. You tell us (at news-answers-request@mit.edu) and we fix
it for you. :) Just superseding the incorrect posting will put a copy
with the correct archive name, but will leave the old incorrectly
named copy in the archives. Not only does this waste disk space, the
old copy will become outdated but will not be automatically replaced
(confusing readers), until we notice it, delete it, and politely
mention to you that you posted with the wrong archive name at one
point and should have told us about it. :)
(Send us direct email with the incorrect archive name... I can't
conveniently log into the right machine to fix the problem right now.)
--- Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service, Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
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