Re: lost post 26-Feb

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Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Fri, 6 Mar 1998 09:38:47 -0500 (EST)


> Hello. "Viruses and the Mac FAQ", 'computer-virus/macintosh-faq', is
> archived at rtfm.mit.edu, but far as we know and can tell from Deja News,
> the faq-server didn't post it on 26-Feb.

According to the FAQ-server's logs, that article was posted on
Feb. 26, and it was archived at rtfm.mit.edu (which grabs articles off
the news feed, not directly from the faq-server) on Feb. 27. If it
didn't make it to the other archives or mirrors, that points to poor
propagation.

Perhaps some site is categorically refusing to propagate articles
posted to more than a set number of newsgroups? FAQs don't typically
violate more reasonable metrics such as BI>x, because of their
Followup-To: lines.

- Pam Greene
a *.answers moderator