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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Is threading better on Usenet or gmane?
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:16:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-04-11, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016-04-11, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> I just finished checking a very recent thread containing 67 articles
> by pointing slrn at news.panix.com for the Usenet version and at
> news.gmane.com for the mailing-list version.
[...]
> On the Usenet side, 35 of 67 articles had unavailable parent
> articles,
[...]
> On the mailing-list side 15 of 67 had unavailable parent articles,

FWIW, an automated test on the 1000 most recent articles showed this:

                         Usenet   Gmane
        No References      69      104
   Unavailable Parent     357       34

Due to moderation/filtering, the set of articles from the two servers
probably isn't identical.

For posts that aren't follow-ups, no references is normal, but I'm
surprised by the size of the difference in number of articles with no
references header.

An unavailable parent means that there _was_ a refrences header, but
the most recent reference didn't map to an available article on the
server in question.

In general, the situation appears to be significantly better on Gmane
-- even if we assume that the excess number of "no reference"
ariticles on Gmane indicates those articles are broken and should have
references.

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