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Rob B wrote:
Testing... Hooray!! So far, no sniveling twit has chimed in with a protest...whining that you should have posted to a "test" NG. -Made my hour! |
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"Mark˛" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:%MXaf.4950$UF4.4342@fed1read02... Rob B wrote: Testing... Hooray!! So far, no sniveling twit has chimed in with a protest...whining that you should have posted to a "test" NG. -Made my hour! Never worked out how posting to another group would prove you could post to the group you really wanted to post to in the first place. ;-) |
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Pete D wrote:
"Mark˛" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:%MXaf.4950$UF4.4342@fed1read02... Rob B wrote: Testing... Hooray!! So far, no sniveling twit has chimed in with a protest...whining that you should have posted to a "test" NG. -Made my hour! Never worked out how posting to another group would prove you could post to the group you really wanted to post to in the first place. ;-) Exactly. It is not uncommon for a particular group to go on the blink, while another (such as a test group) works OK. One way around the whole question is to simply post a REPLY to an old thread--which accomplishes the test. -But either way, it's easily ignored. Thankfully, usenet is reiable enough that the occasional test posts remain insignificant in number...since most folks have no problem and don't need a test. |
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˝ Confused wrote:
˝ of me understands this thread, ˝ is completely confused... Jeff ˝ That's why I'm Mark˛... -I'm twice as confused as you...and then I square even that besides! |
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On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:16:24 -0600, Henry wrote:
Mark˛ wrote: Never worked out how posting to another group would prove you could post to the group you really wanted to post to in the first place. ;-) Exactly. It is not uncommon for a particular group to go on the blink, while another (such as a test group) works OK. You don't understand how NNTP software works.. It's essentially a big database.. All the groups are stored in the same place and managed by the same computer. You can't have some groups not working while the others do work. It's not possible. That isn't actually true - moderated groups quite frequently give problems. Additionally most/all news servers allow retention times to be specified per group. If an administrator screws up and gives a group a very small retention time it may render that group unusable on that server. Having said that, it is uncommon for one non-moderated group to work correctly and another not to. (IME - there may be some servers [1] where the admin is pretty chaotic.) But of course there is no reason why a test message has to be headed "test: please ignore" - you could always post something about photography. [1] Thinking about it further, make that: "there are some servers ..." -- Stephen Poley |
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Henry wrote:
Mark˛ wrote: Never worked out how posting to another group would prove you could post to the group you really wanted to post to in the first place. ;-) Exactly. It is not uncommon for a particular group to go on the blink, while another (such as a test group) works OK. You don't understand how NNTP software works.. It's essentially a big database.. All the groups are stored in the same place and managed by the same computer. You can't have some groups not working while the others do work. It's not possible. It most certainly is possible. Not all news servers even carry all news groups. A perfect example was the flurry of additional photo NGs a year or so ago. Many could see them while others reported that their servers didn't carry them. |
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"Mark˛" mjmorgan(lowest even number writes:
It most certainly is possible. Not all news servers even carry all news groups. A perfect example was the flurry of additional photo NGs a year or so ago. Many could see them while others reported that their servers didn't carry them. So if I'm _seeing_ the group, what's the point of a test post to see if it's carried? I'm just confused? ? -- Phil Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed The Civilized Explorer | spam and read later. email from this URL http://www.cieux.com/ | http://www.civex.com/ is read daily. |
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"Henry" wrote in message ... Mark˛ wrote: Never worked out how posting to another group would prove you could post to the group you really wanted to post to in the first place. ;-) Exactly. It is not uncommon for a particular group to go on the blink, while another (such as a test group) works OK. You don't understand how NNTP software works.. It's essentially a big database.. All the groups are stored in the same place and managed by the same computer. You can't have some groups not working while the others do work. It's not possible. Thankfully, usenet is reiable enough that the occasional test posts remain insignificant in number...since most folks have no problem and don't need a test. Thankfully most people know HOW to use test groups. There are THOUSANDS of test posts sent to test groups every day. alt.test is a very busy group and that's only ONE of the many test groups. The fact these test groups are well used is WHY you don't see large amounts of test posts showing up in working newsgroups. Many noobs are enlightened by fellow users who point out that it's a courtesy to use test groups for test posts. If nobody mentions it, how would would a noob ever know ? Troll |
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Phil Stripling wrote:
"Mark˛" mjmorgan(lowest even number writes: It most certainly is possible. Not all news servers even carry all news groups. A perfect example was the flurry of additional photo NGs a year or so ago. Many could see them while others reported that their servers didn't carry them. So if I'm _seeing_ the group, what's the point of a test post to see if it's carried? I'm just confused? ? Ya, that wasn't a good example. There are often glitches that happen though. When you see multiple identical posts from someone, it is often because something strange happened on the server end...where posts didn't show up when they should have. This has happened to me numerous times. |
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