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- From: kainaw@cris.com (CS Wagner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: THOR question
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 14:49:23 GMT
- Organization: Concentric Internet Services
- Message-ID: <2546.6613T569T253@cris.com>
- References: <1209.6603T5T592@chch.planet.org.nz> <1045.6603T1421T493@stud.cs.uit.no><530.6604T1276T1616@ibm.net><849.6611T545T1272@icenet.no><676.6611T723T2180@ibm.net>
- <999.6611T557T550@cris.com> <759.6612T1164T2304@ibm.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: crc2.cris.com
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
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- >In a message of 07-Feb-96 15:18:53, CS Wagner wrote:
-
- CW>> NNTP doesn't say how many messages there are, it says what the maximum
- CW>> and minimum message numbers are. Say it says it's sending messages
- CW>> 22150 to 22160. That's 11 messages (it's inclusive). You will see,
- CW>> downloading 1/11 and so on. Now lets say message 22156 has been
- CW>> deleted. Out of the blue, it will jump from downloading 6/11 to 7/10.
-
- >What could be the reason for deleted messages?
-
- >It happens quite often here that many msgs in the database are missing.
- >So who's deletimg the msgs and why?
-
- > Georges Heinesch, Luxembourg
-
- There are many reasons for a message to be deleted. Start with the most
- common: A kill-bot. In order to cut down on spamming, many services run kill-
- bot programs that delete messages that are posted across many newsgroups. This
- is a service to you so you won't have to read a 'Get Rich Quick!' message in
- every newsgroup you download.
-
- Then there's the simple computer error. A message gets saved, but oops, it's
- messed up. NNTP doesn't know what to do, so ignores it and goes to the next
- message.
-
- Now, another one that I think happens, but I don't know for sure (somebody
- should know). When you download news, I notice all the news has a call number
- and a domain. If that means the actual article is help on that domain's
- computer at that specific number (which would make sense - this is the
- internet we're talking about) then what if that domain computer goes down? You
- can't get that message.
-
- Some providers won't send you news that has your name as the person who posted
- the article.
-
- Some providers censor their news. This can be a good thing, but they censor
- the wrong groups. Every now and then I think about the binaries groups. That's
- a joke. In a group that has over 20,000 messages, only about 200 are actual
- binary files - the rest are 'Me Too', 'How do I see these?', 'Please post the
- Pink Ranger', 'I have Sandra Bullock'...... and most of those idiots have
- email addresses that end with 'aol.com' (coincedence?).
-
- Anyway, I'm drifting off subject. There's many reasons a news post might get
- lost. Most of them are for your benefit.
- -Kainaw
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