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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: TEST posting
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.071826.7717@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1992Dec22.113725.131120@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:18:26 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Dec22.113725.131120@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl> pzoestbergen@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl writes:
- >TEST to see if posting is possible
-
- Yes, certainly. Here is more information on testing in general.
- This being a new group, I understand your need of testing, but still
- avoid doing this. Your next step should be testing cancelling your
- test posting. If you are using rn, press C at your message. For
- other newsreader programs see their help function. (I confess
- having done testing in CAM.announce myself, but I also cancelled my
- test. Besides as a moderator I really had no choice but to test the
- tools which bring you our announcements).
-
- -From: garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq31.zip Frequently Asked Questions
- Subject: Where to put test postings
-
- 16. *****
- Q: Where to put test postings?
-
- A: Please don't take offence by this item. It is meant as a
- friendly piece of advice, not as a flame. Novice users, and
- sometimes even others, occasionally place these "A test, please
- ignore" messages in discussion newsgroups. Please don't do this. It
- is wasteful of the resources. These news reach tens of thousands of
- readers, so a very wide distribution is involved. Furthermore, many
- users find the test messages very annoying in the discussion
- newsgroups, and you have a good chance of getting some testy email.
- There is a much better solution for the testing. There are
- special test newsgroups just for this purpose, such as alt.test and
- misc.test. The misc.test is a good option, since there are several
- test echos along the feed. They will automatically send you
- email acknowledgements when your test posting reaches these sites.
- One more piece of advice on test posting. Don't start with a
- "world" distribution right away. First consider experimenting with
- "local", and think of expanding only after that, if this is still
- necessary. If you look at the header of a UseNet posting, you'll
- notice that it includes the a line for distribution.
- If you are a system manager who has had to do the test this way
- for practical reasons, my apologies if this advisory note was not
- appropriate in the case of your test.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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