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This article is from the Scuba Diving
FAQ, by njs@scifi.maid.com (Nick Simicich) with numerous
contributions by others.
28 My rec.scuba stopped!
For some reason, I'm not getting rec.scuba/scuba-l/scuba-d. What
should I do?
Well, there are many things you can do. You can contact your news
administrator, who should know what to do about contacting your
upstream sites. If you are on a pay service, contact your help desk.
What you should *not* do is cluelessly post a test to rec.scuba. This
is incredibly rude, as well as useless. What will probably happen with
your test is that whatever is holding up your newsfeed will hold up
your test posting, and no one will see it until the logjam is broken.
Then it will be distributed, at just about the same time you start
seeing postings again. Alternatively, it will be distributed
immediately, because the blockage is one way, and people will respond
to it, but it will all be useless, because you won't have seen the
responses. You will be wasting your time, and everyone else's, as well
as network bandwidth.
Occasionally, a news administrator will have a specific problem with
propagation of rec.scuba, and will have to post a test. Those postings
are few and far between. If they ask for a response, respond via
email. Generally, news administrators can use a group such as
misc.test for testing.
The above also applies to scuba-l. It is clueless, rude, and a waste
of time for the average individual user to post tests in public
newsgroups or mailing lists, and it is equally clueless, although less
rude, to respond to them in public newsgroups. Contact the your news
administrator if you think you are having trouble with news. Contact
your postmaster if you think you are having trouble with email.
Contact the mailing list maintainer if you think you are having
trouble with a mailing list (typically at the listname-request
address, or, for scuba-l and scuba-d, at listserv@brownvm.brown.edu,
for automated help).
It is a good idea to restrain yourself and not respond to these
postings in public. In fact, it is a good idea not to respond at all.
There are automatic responders listening to misc.test, just waiting to
eagerly and automatically respond to your posting.
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