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In <34742@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, jbuck@henry.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Joe Buck) wrote:

| Don't do it unless you also plan on making it moderated.  As I just
| posted to gnu.config, there are sites out there which will bounce the
| messages because "announce" is a magic cookie.

> Such sites (running 2.10.2 news) should have pressure put on them to
> upgrade, since they don't work correctly in the current net environment
> in all kinds of ways (they think all groups not beginning with "mod"
> and not containing "announce" are unmoderated).  The updated net software
> is freely available and not difficult to install.

A great number of administrators are lazy.  The moderation problems
you describe are not enough to make them fix things.  A GNUer who does
not control his or her system may have no choice but to use 2.10.2.
The MIS mentality is especially rampant in large corporations.

As has been said, a large number of such sites *do* exist, and if you
create an "announce" group, you're going to have a lot of spurious
mail for *each* posting.  uunet & the backbone are the ones who get
hurt by voluminous junk mail, not the backwards site (ie, old site
sends 1 mail per article, whereas uunet must deal with N sites x M
articles).

We live in an imperfect world...
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