Re: EarthLink's netnews server is defective

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From: Captain Howdy
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:00

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If you took the time to follow this NG as well as this topic, you
wouldn't be making such an ignorant statement.  Reload the headers and
start reading this issue from several months ago....

Capt'n 

Me <srhi@home.com> wrote:

>Bruce Adler wrote:
>> 
>> I've discovered that deja.com on some days during the last month
>> is missing a significant fraction of the posted articles. This
>> tends to make news.earthlink.net look better than it actually is.
>> I've located a netnews server which seems to be missing a lot fewer
>> articles than deja.com.
>> 
>> Here's a comparison of the number of articles available from
>> news.earthlink.net in the newsgroup comp.unix.solaris, versus
>> the number of articles in the same group from talkway.com. You
>> should in particular note how bad the last week has been on
>> news.earthlink.net.
>
>Geez, why are you complaining about this problem on a newsgroup?
>Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a configuration problem
>with the news server or the server might not be getting all the postings
>it should from its feeder server? The logical thing to do in such situations
>is to report the problem to the service provider. No where in your message
>did you indicate that you did so. What was your point in posting the message
>on a newsgroup?

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From: pjz@sprintmail.com (Captain Howdy)
Subject: Re: EarthLink's netnews server is defective
Date: 2000/01/16
Message-ID: <38821652.408478183@news.earthlink.net>
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