john duncan <agley@beagle.com.au> writes:
> On 2006-09-17, Aaron Sloman <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I have just discovered that the news feed to the university of
> > Birmingham has been broken since April or May.
> >
> >
> (snip)
>
> Hi Aaron,
> I will answer this to see if my reply gets through
> to your other groups.
Thanks John. Your message came through fine as shown by the path:
Path: bhamcs!news.bham.ac.uk!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!feed1.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!qmul!ciril.fr!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!newsfeed.vmunix.org!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.optus.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail
It turned out that one of the news machines between us and the rest
of the world had got into a confused state and was sending news out
but not letting news in. This has now been fixed.
Having got here, it was automatically relayed to the pop-forum and
poplog-dev lists also.
Use of the news server in this school (and this university) has
dwindled to a low level so it is possible that it will be withdrawn.
(Web sites like google groups no longer make it necessary for
individual sites to receive lots of news groups.)
If that happens, the link between comp.lang.pop and pop-forum will
be broken. At that stage I may ask whether anyone else can
support the link. It may require the mailing list to be hosted
at another site.
But this is not yet urgent. I mention it only to allow people with
relevant expertise and resources to look out for opportunities.
Aaron
[Reading and posting news from inside Ved using the ved_gn
facilities in Poplog V15.6]
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/
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