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

Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> It seems that none of my news servers NIN, plusnet (rebadged giganews),
>> E-S allow sending control messages ... suggestions?

Even though giganews say they don't allow control/approved messages, by 
experiment I've found the plusnet rebadged server certainly allows 
approved, and seems to allow control (insofaras messages with a dubious 
control header get blackholed)

> Let Ray Banana know what you are trying to accomplish. 

yes I have to recreated an E-S account

> 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.

ok, I can see messages in control.newgroup

> 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.

thanks

> 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.

ok

> 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.

Will do ...