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[Gene Wirchenko]

Dear Mr. Banana:

I just saw a bunch of messages in various newsgroups dating from
March 27 on. I have downloaded messages several times since that
date. Did your system or another's hiccup?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Adam H. Kerman]

Dude: Did you notice they were all from Google Groups? Did you notice
that there have been nearly no articles from Google Groups in six days?

[Joshua Cranmer]

On 4/2/2012 4:42 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Dear Mr. Banana:
>
> I just saw a bunch of messages in various newsgroups dating from
> March 27 on. I have downloaded messages several times since that
> date. Did your system or another's hiccup?

Judging from the fact that another newsserver I was on also got a spate
of old messages, I'm guessing Google Groups is having hiccups syncing to
Usenet.

--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

[Paul]

Google finally figured out it's been partitioned from USENET
for the last few days. And now it's transferring the unsent
messages from Google --> USENET. I think the other direction,
USENET --> Google, was working all of that time.

There was a similar kind of partition with respect to Google
Groups, about a month ago or so.

I have one particular newsgroup, where 500 messages showed up
since my last check, and those are a torrent of abuse from
Google Gropers. That's how I know the partition problem is
fixed, when the abuse starts showing up again. Most other
groups, the volume is low enough, the extra traffic is a
trickle. But the group with some certified insane people,
bucketloads of their bilge just showed up. This is the kind
of quality I'm talking about.

(These are "sit on your keyboard with your ass" messages... Quality.)

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&A=0&MSGI=%3Cacb730e4-3d77-4dfb-a4e8-d5cec9ec967c%40i18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com%3E

Paul

[Gene Wirchenko]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 21:55:41 +0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<a...@chinet.com> wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> wrote:
>
>>Dear Mr. Banana:
>
>> I just saw a bunch of messages in various newsgroups dating from
>>March 27 on. I have downloaded messages several times since that
>>date. Did your system or another's hiccup?

>Dude: Did you notice they were all from Google Groups? Did you notice
>that there have been nearly no articles from Google Groups in six days?

I did not mark them, but I checked two messages that I know were
in the bunch, and yes, they were from Google. Thank you.

No, I would not notice such an absence.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Adam H. Kerman]

It was quiet and peaceful on Usenet for several days.

[Bob Henson]

On 03/04/2012 1:05 AM, Paul wrote:
> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> Dear Mr. Banana:
>>
>> I just saw a bunch of messages in various newsgroups dating from
>> March 27 on. I have downloaded messages several times since that
>> date. Did your system or another's hiccup?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Gene Wirchenko
>
> Google finally figured out it's been partitioned from USENET
> for the last few days. And now it's transferring the unsent
> messages from Google --> USENET. I think the other direction,
> USENET --> Google, was working all of that time.
>
> There was a similar kind of partition with respect to Google
> Groups, about a month ago or so.
>
> I have one particular newsgroup, where 500 messages showed up
> since my last check, and those are a torrent of abuse from
> Google Gropers. That's how I know the partition problem is
> fixed, when the abuse starts showing up again. Most other
> groups, the volume is low enough, the extra traffic is a
> trickle. But the group with some certified insane people,
> bucketloads of their bilge just showed up. This is the kind
> of quality I'm talking about.
>
> (These are "sit on your keyboard with your ass" messages... Quality.)

I permanently delete, unseen, all mail from Google groups - that stops
it being a problem.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


You know you're old when "getting lucky" means finding your car in the
car park.