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In article <SHADOW.89Jun27171150@pawl.rpi.edu> shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
>  Of course, the easiest way is simply to
>post it to comp.sources.amiga -- he'll get it.

This is actually error prone, since there's lots of different kinds
of news software out there other than the Unix News B, and even *that*
comes in many release flavors with different bugs.

Some possible problems: his news software might not be aware that it
should forward to moderators, or it might not know the correct
moderator address, or it might try more or less the right thing
but screw up the exact phrasing of the moderator's address, or
it might just throw it away.

Possibly the worst possible case is if it *seems* to go off somewhere,
but never actually reaches Bob. This includes some scenarios where it
is sort of posted to the group illegally, and some receivers trash it
as illegally posted and others allow it.

Such problems are hopefully rarer now than they were in the past,
but wasn't he on Bitnet? Who knows how it works thru such torturous
paths.

Posting to moderated groups and depending that your software will
do the right thing is reasonable *only* if you've done some local
research to determine whether that has a chance of working correctly.
	Doug
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