[cc:ed to remailer-operators; I suggest replies to the latter] The Checkered Daemon writes:
Do any of the posting remailers accept the inclusion of regional usenets in their active files so that people can use them to post directly to regional newsgroups?
Last I heard, Julf generally honors requests for penet.fi to carry additional groups. If you don't know the contact address of a particular remailer operator, remailer-operators@c2.org is probably the best place to try to get in touch with one. (Most c'punk remailers mention an admin/complaints address in the headers of their remailed messages.) Many cpunk/mix remailers these days allow newsgroup posting only via mail2news gateways, so you may need to convince the operator of one of those to add a group. In itself, this doesn't necessarily solve your problem, due to the nature of Usenet news propagation. Briefly, if a site "upstream" of the posting site in the propagation tree doesn't carry a certain group, then articles posted only to that group won't make it out to much of the net. The most popular solution to this predicament is "piggybacking" -- crossposting an article into a well- propagated group so that it makes it across holes in the lesser-carried group's propagation. The *.test groups are often used for this, although you'll irritate plenty of people if you don't set the Followup-To: on your article out of the test group. -Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com> "Jeux sans frontieres"