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Article #34EarthLink's netnews server is defective
From: Bruce Adler
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:00
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% ================================= TOTAL 2431 / 3245 = 75% ELNK vs talkway for last 7 days: TOTAL 611 / 1136 = 54%
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdd88,dd7fc2715a33d6b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfdd88,public X-Google-Thread: fc3ab,dd7fc2715a33d6b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3ab,public X-Google-Thread: 107b34,dd7fc2715a33d6b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107b34,public X-Google-Thread: fe40d,dd7fc2715a33d6b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfe40d,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,dd7fc2715a33d6b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,dd7fc2715a33d6b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-Thread: f47fd,dd7fc2715a33d6b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf47fd,public From: "Bruce Adler" <bruce.NxOxSxPxAxMx.adler@acm.org> Subject: EarthLink's netnews server is defective Date: 2000/01/15 Message-ID: <v2Vf4.355$%Y3.24768@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 572893329 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-ELN-Date: Fri Jan 14 23:09:15 2000 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 947920155 209.245.70.73 (Fri, 14 Jan 2000 23:09:15 PST) Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 23:09:15 PST Newsgroups: alt.internet.newservers,alt.internet.providers.america,alt.provider.earthlink,ba.internet,earthlink.complaints,earthlink.tech-support.news,misc.consumers