News server weirdness...

[Martin Brown]

On 24/07/2020 19:42, Phil Hobbs wrote:

On 2020-07-24 14:24, John Robertson wrote:
On 2020/07/24 10:39 a.m., Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 2020-07-24 12:39, John Robertson wrote:
On 2020/07/24 2:10 a.m., Phil Hobbs wrote:
Bits of usenet are acting flaky at the moment (the servers, I
mean--we all know about the posters).

For Rick\'s \"comparator with wide CM range\" thread, Supernews and
Google have 25 posts at the moment, but the thread is completely
missing from eternal-september.org and aioe.org.

My \"cute dpot hack\" thread has 21 posts on supernews and GG, vs.
5 on ES and AIOE.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs


I\'m on Giganews and I see two identical posts by you with the same
time stamp. I haven\'t seen any other duplicate posts...

In the headers one organization is called \"A noiseless patient
spider\" from electooptical.net and the other is \"Aloe.org NNTP
Server\" from giola.aloe.org. Just in case it helps...

John :-#)#

One was via Supernews, which hung up for awhile but apparently did
actually post it, and the other via AIOE.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs


So that is part of what you are talking about then. There should not
have been two identical posts on Usenet. Too much traffic, or not enough?

Giganews is showing around 25 posts on Rick\'s subject (above).

John ;-#)#

My original complaint is just about posts and threads going missing on
ES and AIOE.  I did the \"rebuild index\" thing and then
unsubscribed/resubscribed, but it didn\'t change anything.

I don\'t think they are missing on the server. I have posted the headers
for the post I think you referred to as missing on AIOE as downloaded
from AIOE. If the missing one has a different msgid then please post it.

I only see the \"noiseless patient spider\" version from here but with the
full thread attached to it.

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Regards,
Martin Brown