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

Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>Your Control header is missing. 
>>An Approved header is also required.

>They were in the message when I composed it, seems TB doesn't save them 
>in drafts, I can add them back before I hit send.

I did see the newgroup messages at AIOE in valid syntax.

Please hold off on requesting group creation locally. I saw that you
already made the request on eternal-september.

Ray Banana and other News administrators check the archive of control
messages at ftp.isc.org. You should have done that first to make sure
they got processed.

Russ's cron job that processes control messages, feeding them to INN at
ftp.isc.org, runs every three hours. This is to thwart Hipcrime and
other denial-of-service attacks with massive numbers of control
messages.

That means it takes up to 6 hours to show up in the archives.

I know that the nylon.net FAQ recommends sending a booster newgroup
control message. Traditionally, the proponent waits a full week to do
this; that's not in the FAQ. Note that booster messages are useless
because there are nearly no News sites that allow automatic creation of
new groups in alt.* and free.* because of past denial of service
attacks and other types of abuse. Any News administrator running a
decent News site will check the archives and won't just process the
newgroup control message, the original or the booster.

The booster is useless but if you send it, wait a full week. Please
don't send further boosters.