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Original Usenet thread from rec.arts.ascii, started 14 Jun 1994.
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rec.arts.ascii · 7 messages · 14 Jun 1994 - 30 Apr 1995
I'm not sure if I can get news through here yet...

-- 
Randall Nortman (aka Bob the WonderClown)
University of Chicago
rcn...@midway.uchicago.edu
My opinions are just that - my opinions.

I'm just testing to see if I can post yet....

Larry Pendergraft <lpe...@spd.dsccc.com> ASCII art 15 Jun 1994 00:50 · permalink · report
News Administrator (new...@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote:

: I'm just testing to see if I can post yet....

Yep, me too...

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| Larry Pendergraft   (lpe...@.spd.dsccc.com)   I said it, DSC didn't.  |
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Today I received a response to a test message in rec.arts.ascii, from
someone puzzled as to why I, who should know better, would post a test 
to a non-*.test group:

  > From: new...@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
  > Subject: test
  > Date: 14 Jun 1994 15:36:27 -0500
  > Message-ID: <2tl4cb$ji...@gagme.wwa.com>

I didn't, and I'd like to disclaim having done so.  My guess is that
one of my users with a misconfigured NNTP client posted the article;
I'll attempt to track this down locally.

(I'll also note, for future reference, that the test article had no
 .signature; my articles always do.)

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Ellen Keyne Seebacher            new...@uchinews.uchicago.edu

Bob Allison <bob...@gagme.wwa.com> ASCII art 16 Jun 1994 00:08 · permalink · report
   Some of you may be wondering what the purpose of test messages on a 
moderated group is.

   Well, we had a problem.  The article address was changed the same day the 
group was created.  Some people were having trouble posting from some 
sites.

   So, some folks were sending test messages to see if their posts would 
get through.  I obviously didn't have to actually post them, since it was 
really a test of whether it get to me.  But I posted them so the tester 
could see for themselves.

   As to the newsmistress, I doubt she posted the test.  It was probably 
somebody else at her site who didn't know any better.

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In article <2tlj8g$qv...@gagme.wwa.com> lpe...@spd.dsccc.com (Larry Pendergraft) writes:
>News Administrator (new...@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote:
>: I'm just testing to see if I can post yet....
>Yep, me too...

Me three! --;=;<  (<-- gator)

 ignore. this is only a test.

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