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EarthLink's netnews server is defective

#34
From: Bruce Adler
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:00
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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.

The comp.unix.solaris article counts by day, as of Jan 14, 2000
at 0200 PST:

Datestamp
of article     ELNK / talkway = %%%
TUE   12/21/99   74 /  182 =  41%
WED   12/22/99  111 /  149 =  74%
THU   12/23/99  132 /  140 =  94%
FRI   12/24/99   91 /   97 =  94%
SAT   12/25/99   51 /   53 =  96%
SUN   12/26/99   52 /   53 =  98%
MON   12/27/99  132 /  138 =  96%
TUE   12/28/99  153 /  156 =  98%
WED   12/29/99  178 /  182 =  98%
THU   12/30/99  104 /  108 =  96%
FRI   12/31/99   51 /   50 = 102%
SAT   01/01/00   42 /   43 =  98%
SUN   01/02/00   48 /   57 =  84%
MON   01/03/00  134 /  128 = 105%
TUE   01/04/00  159 /  184 =  86%
WED   01/05/00  160 /  195 =  82%
THU   01/06/00  148 /  194 =  76%
FRI   01/07/00  120 /  198 =  61%
SAT   01/08/00   23 /   48 =  48%
SUN   01/09/00   48 /   79 =  61%
MON   01/10/00   91 /  183 =  50%
TUE   01/11/00  116 /  233 =  50%
WED   01/12/00   85 /  158 =  54%
THU   01/13/00  128 /   37 =  54%
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TOTAL          2431 / 3245 =  75%

ELNK vs talkway for last 7 days:
TOTAL           611 / 1136 =  54%
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From: "Bruce Adler" <bruce.NxOxSxPxAxMx.adler@acm.org>
Subject: EarthLink's netnews server is defective
Date: 2000/01/15
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