Re: [PROPOSAL Mk2] alt.comp.software.thunderbird

Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:

>It seems that none of my news servers NIN, plusnet (rebadged giganews), 
>E-S allow sending control messages ... suggestions?

Let Ray Banana know what you are trying to accomplish. Let him know that
you are being a responsible proponent and that you intend to publicize
the three groups till there are sustainable levels of discussion and
that even ahk in alt.config thinks you will make the effort to be a
serious proponent.

Any server that creates newsgroups in the control.* hierarchy will show
control messages received. Those aren't discussion groups, just groups
that archive control messages after the local server processed them.

AIOE has the control.* hierarchy last I looked.

See if you know someone with a personal News server. You may become a
user on that and send the newgroup message.

Neodome doesn't block third-party cancels (which Russ yells at him
about) so I don't see why he'd block newgroup messages, but go the
Neodome route only if you are desperate.

The purpose of the INN server at ftp.isc.org is to confirm that the
newgroup message was in correct syntax. If the Newsgroups file line is
correct, then the active and newsgroups files at that server will show
that the group was created locally at ftp.isc.org.

The archive of control messages will be updated if the sytax of the
Control header is correct but doesn't also check the syntax of the
Newsgroups file line.

Note: The author of the nylon.net FAQ didn't quite get everything right.
You put the group being created on the Newsgroups header. Yeah, I know
he says put alt.config on the header, but he didn't understand that
control messages don't propagate based on Newsgroups header.

My suggestion is that you post the headers of the control message in the
body of a followup article and just let me eyeball them before you send
the newgroup messages.