Re: Java and avoiding software piracy?

On Jul 17, 4:18 am, Twisted <twisted...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(What the HELL is going on with GG? The post I'm replying to appeared
at the text-only read-only NNTP host I use for reading and checking
propagation almost as soon as I'd posted it but did not appear on GG
itself for a full hour! How can it be injected at GG but make it to
some obscure server in Eastern Europe an hour sooner than to Google's
own server? It's not logically possible. They must have some bug that
is causing the GG post-viewing interface to show a heavily out-of-date
version of what's actually on their news spool. It's probably an HTTP
cache in their load-balancing infrastructure that's not managing
timestamps properly. Given the nearly exact 1 hour difference, I'm
guessing they had to reload a machine somewhere and its clock wound up
on standard instead of daylight time, perhaps because they restored a
config file from a backup made during the winter. Too bad there's no
obvious way to give them a heads-up about it. It's probably a five-
minute fix once they realize what's gone wrong.)

It's even more horribly broken today. Postings dated 9 AM my time on
the NNTP server are missing on GG nearly 12 hours later. GG shows
nothing at all new for the last day in the "usb dongle" thread, which
I know to be a lie.

Effectively, I've got one hand tied behind my back. There are postings
I know are out there but I'm being denied the right to respond to
them, and for no apparent reason.

I want whoever is responsible identified and I want their head on a
pike!

Give me a google feedback address with all of the following
properties:
* If I send email there it will not bounce.
* And it will be read by an actual human being.
* Within one business day.
* And they will fix whatever the *** they broke immediately; it
should be as simple as rolling back some ill-advised change to some
server's configuration.
* After this, the aforementioned head-ka-bob will be shipped priority
next-day by USPS or Fed Ex to the P.O. box of my choice.

Or else give me all of the information (e.g. a server address or web
address) needed to use an NNTP server:
* To post news.
* For free.
* Without having to expose an email address if I don't want to.
* Without any pernicious "posting limits", awful propagation, gobs of
spam, terrible retention, or other such problems.
* And which will not change in any of these respects for quite a long
time.

I want one of these or the other in a followup to this posting
immediately. I've had it with fucking Google Groups.

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