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In ba.internet Bruce Adler <bruce.NxOxSxPxAxMx.adler@acm.org> wrote:

: resources on inactive newsgroups. So while performing an essentially
: pointless bit of server maintainence Earthlink managed to royally screw
: up, again. Even if we assume that deleting inactive newsgroups is somehow
: useful I can't begin to understand how that could possibly be a higher
: priority than figuring out why Earthlink lost about 35% of the posted
: articles (in all newsgroups) during the past week.

Well, removing newsgroups may be a pointed bit of server maintenance,
especially if the groups have collected spam cruft.  (Especially
if they've removed alt.binaries.*) It's not difficult to figure out 
why you're seeing lossage...try looking in the path: header and 
noticing who they use for upstreams, telnet to the nntp port and note 
what software they're using, and imagine a machine lacking I/O bandwidth, 
peers, or proper software to keep up, and then keep in mind that any 
tinkering with the server will take it out of commission for about a day 
or so (best case).  Even if you have a 'hot spare', your article numbers 
will go out of whack, confusing certain newsreaders.  And I'm not sure if 
they care about "news" as much as you do, it's very difficult
to compete with outsourced NNTP these days.

Also, the ba.* charter prohibits binary postings.  If you're going
to post here, as it's arguable that your post has anything to do
with Bay Area Internet access, you really don't need to clutter
your posts with attachments when you can simply publish the
.png to a site somewhere and link to it there.

--Sam