Re: lost post 26-Feb

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Balanone (Balanone@geocities.com)
Fri, 06 Mar 1998 18:01:46 -0800


Pamela Greene (news.answers moderator) wrote:

> > I updated Balanone's Temple of Set FAQ in mid February, and received back
> > confirmation from the FAQ server that the update was received, and that the
> > next posting would be Feb 26.
> >
> > That next posting never happened.
>
> This posted just fine on Feb. 26 and was archived at rtfm.mit.edu on
> Feb. 27; Message-ID: <religions/temple-of-set_888515173@rtfm.mit.edu>
>
> I'm not aware of any ongoing propagation problems specific to MIT's
> servers, but I'll ask around. Anyone have other ideas?

That post never reached my ISP here.

I just wiped my local news.answers archive (Netscape Communicator 4), and
redownloaded all news.answers headers from news.2xtreme.net. Sorting them
alphabetically, I find the January 26 header for Balanone's Temple of Set
FAQ (<religions/temple-of-set_885817901@rtfm.mit.edu> (116368) -- the
message text has expired off the ISP, but the header is still here), but I
do not find any header for the February 26/27 posting.

To Support@2xtreme.net: The problem appears to be that some/many FAQ posts
in the news.answers and other newsgroups are not reaching a variety of
sites, including ours. This FAQ is automatically posted by the news.answers
FAQ server. Though the FAQ apparently reached the central rtfm.mit.edu
archive, it did not reach our ISP in ANY of the newsgroups it posts to
(news.answers, alt.satanism, alt.magick, and alt.pagan are the ones I
personally subscribe to, and it did not appear in those four).

There are several people complaining on the FAQ maintainers mailing list
that they're not seeing their FAQs, or seeing just one or two pieces of a
multi-post FAQ.

Is there anything you can do at 2xtreme.net to help identify where the
transmission breakdown might be occuring?

Balanone Balanone@geocities.com
PP Balanone@2xtreme.net

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