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This group is designed to allow news system administrators in
Toronto to track news distribution. It will be of assistance
when a site has problems with its feed and isn't sure whether
the problem is with its immediate feed or further upstream.

(The idea for the group came from a comment in a posting by
hoptoad!gnu, mentioning a ba.news in the Bay Area. I then
discussed it by mail with several other Toronto newsadmins,
who agreed it was a good idea.)

To be effective, this group should ideally have daily (automatic)
postings from all non-leaf sites which will indicate the amount
of news transferred.

For now, I will start by having our "Nightly news report" data
posted. This is done with an awk script written by {lsuc,dciem,sq}!msb
which report both news activity and UUCP activity for all sites
we talk to. (News activity which shows 100 articles queued for
sending to site X is meaningless unless we also can see that
100 articles' worth of data was sent by UUCP to site X.)

Anyone who wants our scanlog script, once you see what it posts, should
contact me. If you want to write something more appropriate for
posting to tor.news, that will be welcomed too. Ideally it would be
nice to be able to check tor.news to see whether a particular article
has made it to anywhere in Toronto, but I don't think we want to
end up posting all site's entire history files.

To make this group effective, there should be multiple connectivity.
That way, if your upstream feed is not feeding you anything because
it's down (as opposed to not receiving anything from its feed), you
will stil receive tor.news from someone else in the city, and can
figure out where the blockage is.

* Accordingly, I encourage all non-leaf news admins to modify
* your sys files to feed tor.news to any Toronto sites with which
* you have an existing news connection (even if it's only a to.site
* at the moment). Also, where you have UUCP connections with sites
* with which you don't presently exchange news, I'd suggest you
* contact the other site's news admin and see if they'd like to
* set up a news exchange with you to exchange tor.news.

Working for a better Toronto Usenet,

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
947-3466
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