postings from march 23?

wle <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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this is a test. suddenly today all i saw in this news
group was postings from march 23 at the latest. what is
going on?

Your ISP's NNTP server probably did a purge.

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A: Top-posters.
B: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

"DRS" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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wle <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

this is a test. suddenly today all i saw in this news
group was postings from march 23 at the latest. what is
going on?

Your ISP's NNTP server probably did a purge.

hm. but all i do to read news, is go to the google website,
it would have had to be google that did that, right? it;s
back now, anyway.

wle.

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Originally posted by Wle
"DRS" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

wle <[email hidden]> wrote in message
[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

this is a test. suddenly today all i saw in this news
group was postings from march 23 at the latest. what is
going on?

Your ISP's NNTP server probably did a purge.

hm. but all i do to read news, is go to the google website,
it would have had to be google that did that, right? it;s
back now, anyway.

wle.

Dear Wle,

Google and Cycling Forums both recently had
bouts of indigestion, taking up to two days to
reveal posts visible on other servers.

Google has an ongoing habit of coyly listing a
dozen new posts, which it then claims do not
exist, and then throwing its hands up and removing
them.

An hour or so later, the new posts re-appear,
are easily accessible, and we all act as if nothing
happened.

The same is true of the happy error messages
in which Google throws away your attempt to
post an earth-shaking reply--copy your scrawl
to a clipboard before pushing the "post-message"
button.

Sympathetically,

Carl Fogel