What Happened To My Daily Dose Of comp.unix.questions?

[Mike Lee]

Over the past week about three articles have graced  comp.unix.questions
here  at  ontek.  Previously  it  was  all I could do to keep from being
drowned in "What do the letters in grep mean?" I would appreciate it  if
someone familiar with news who wouldn't mind giving me some advice would
SEND MAIL to me. I have a feeling that  posting  to  comp.unix.questions
won't help...

The specifics of the situation are that we are running  news  version  B
2.11  on  SunOS 4.0.1 on a 4/110. We get all kinds of other neat mail on
other  newsgroups  but  comp.unix.*  and  comp.sys.mac  are  empty  ever
since......   ever  since... ever since I changed the sys file (ouch! it
must be my fault!) I've checked and double checked it.  Here, YOU  check
it...

  ME:comp.ai,comp.os.research,comp.unix,comp.lang.c,comp.misc,\
                              ^^^^^^^^^
  comp.sys.sun,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.hp,comp.windows,\
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  comp.sources,comp.std.c,comp.sys.misc,comp.archives,\
  comp.databases,comp.editors,comp.lang.postscript,\
  misc.jobs,misc.misc,misc.forsale,\
  rec.aviation,rec.arts,rec.autos,rec.audio,rec.mag,rec.misc,\
  rec.music.cd,rec.music.dementia,rec.video,rec.bicycles,rec.games.video,\
  rec.humor,rec.models.rc,rec.music.misc,rec.nude,rec.puzzles,rec.skiing,\
                                         ^^^^^^^^ yes we have perverts here
  alt,news,sci,ca.driving,ca.general,\
  soc.men,soc.misc,soc.motss,soc.women,soc.singles,\
  talk.bizarre,talk.politics.misc,talk.rumors,\
  to.ontek::
  uunet:alt,world,comp,sci,misc,news,rec,soc,ca,talk,na,usa,to::

And now that I think  about  it,  comp.sys.sun  has  been  rather  quiet
lately.  To anticipate a couple of well-meant questions....

YES, I have inews -C'd  the  groups  I  added  (mostly  rec.whatnot  and
alt.whatever, we have indeed been getting those new ones).

YES, I sent mail to  the  mysterious  uunet!root  asking  him/her/it  to
update  whatever  was  necessary  on  that  end.  I received a terse but
positive confimation that this  had  been  done.  We  have  indeed  been
receiving articles from groups that we hadn't before.

In summary, WHERE O WHERE HAS OUR NEWS GONE AWRY?  I  find  it  hard  to
believe  that there would be a sudden drop in traffic on these, the most
heavily posted groups. Again, please mail your responses, lest I not see
thyne answers!  
 
     - thanks,
          Mike Lee

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