Re: Has the usenet system broken down?

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:41:21 -0500 (CDT)

# >> Do we need to have more redundant news feeds (of presumably just
# >> news.answers) sent into MIT.edu (or is perhaps the problem that articles
# >> are being lost
#
# For what it's worth, rtfm only seems to have gotten part 2 of the latest
# posting of my two-part jpeg-faq. (But ohio-state has both parts up to
# date, and so does altavista.)
#
# So based on this very small sample, I'd say that rtfm's newsfeed is
# a bit erratic now.
#
# >> Since the faqs.org site gets its feed from MIT, it also does not
# >> have the updated articles.
# >
# > Ouch.
#
# Indeed.

So how can I fix this ? I get my "feed" as a mirror of RTFM. What can we do
to make it more robust ? Merge a rkive'd newsfeed here with mirroring of
rtfm ? Is this just a temporary problem or the prelude to a more longer
term one ? Thoughts ?

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