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Re: alt.anonymous.messages propagation
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(Replied to this once privately, but since mail continues to come in
I'll repeat here)
In article <[email protected]>,
Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Nope, no alt.anonymous. 'Leastaways, not off the servers that the turist
>> accounts use. And since I configured news on the machine, I'd love to
>> hear if there are MIT servers that have a larger set than life.ai's.
>
>I just looked on news.mit.edu and bloom-beacon.mit.edu (the MIT
>news-transport machine), and I found both alt.anonymous and
>alt.anonymous.messages, so I don't think saying "MIT doesn't get
>alt.anonymous" is at all correct.
>
>It may be correct to say that "GNU.AI.MIT.EDU doesn't get
>alt.anonymous", but GNU is _NOT_ MIT!
Yup, that's why I qualified my statement. Can't check on servers I don't
know about, after all.
FTR, it's not GNU that I'm on/help maintain. It's bronze.
So, life.ai.mit.edu is a deficient newsserver and I'll switch the default
on bronze to news.mit.edu after appropriate consultations.
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