From: cactus@seabsd.hks.net (L. Todd Masco)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 17:31:03 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: alt.anonymous.messages propagation
Message-ID: <199412130135.UAA25636@bb.hks.net>
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(Replied to this once privately, but since mail continues to come in
 I'll repeat here)

In article <9412122127.AA17019@hodge-podge.MIT.EDU>,
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> 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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