Re: alt.anonymous.messages propagation

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L. McCarthy <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> wrote:
>Hmmm, does MIT get alt.anonymous at least ?  I understand alt.anonymous was
>created to serve a purpose similar to that of alt.privacy.anon-server, but 
>at the moment it's a de facto equivalent of alt.anonymous.messages. 
>alt.anonymous is somewhat better propagated than a.a.m, from what I've heard.

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.

>You should request one or both groups from the MIT news admins. If users there
>want to read the group, they'll likely be quite happy to carry it.

Alas, I am but a turist at MIT, though one who helps maintain the turist
machine.  I'll be looking at getting a real newsfeed from elsewhere,
but asking the MIT newsadmins for favors isn't in the cards.  If anybody
here has a bit of a stronger standing on campus, their asking would
be way cool.

>I'm a fairly well-known regular in alt.config, and I believe I can probably
>recruit some prominent news admins to send booster newgroup messages for
>alt.anonymous.messages. Apart from that, it's a matter of people asking their
>local news admins to pick up the group if they aren't already carrying it.

That would be a most excellent thing to do, regardless of how it affects my
situation.
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To: cactus@seabsd.hks.net (L. Todd Masco)
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: alt.anonymous.messages propagation 

Hi.

> 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!

- -derek
	for the News.MIT.EDU maintainers! :-)

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