Re: Cheaters

blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In article <9f5f8aa9-3dde-4758-af57-8bd7cfe9f92e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<scuzwalla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, apparently GG posts to a certain thread in a certain other
newsgroup (from any account) are now being rejected, not even silently
but with a bogus claim of having been posted successfully.

If I know the thread and newsgroup you mean -- the news server
I use shows 21 posts made today, some by scuzwalla@xxxxxxxxxx
They don't seem to show up if I look for them with Google's
"advanced search" interface (searching both on author and group),
but apparently they did make it to at least part of the outside
world. "For the record", "just sayin'", whatever.

[ snip ]

For the record, Usenet is a bunch of servers with a bunch of different settings and retentions and routes, etc... It is actually quite common that a message can be "posted successfully", but not be seen on some, or any, client for quite some time. Google in particular seems to have to spend some time playing catch-up once in a while.

Scuzwalla, you *may* have been cheated, but it is much more likely that you have only seen a hick-up in Google Groups' implementation of Usenet<->Web interface.

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