Re: Has the usenet system broken down?

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Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:18:07 -0400


>> Do we need to have more redundant news feeds (of presumably just
>> news.answers) sent into MIT.edu (or is perhaps the problem that articles
>> are being lost

For what it's worth, rtfm only seems to have gotten part 2 of the latest
posting of my two-part jpeg-faq. (But ohio-state has both parts up to
date, and so does altavista.)

So based on this very small sample, I'd say that rtfm's newsfeed is
a bit erratic now.

>> Since the faqs.org site gets its feed from MIT, it also does not
>> have the updated articles.
>
> Ouch.

Indeed.

regards, tom lane