Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn

From	George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design, comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn
Date	2026-02-19 22:28 -0500
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:20:52 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

>In sci.electronics.design John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
>|"Here's the index for December 2004.  Looks OK to me.                |
>|                                                                     |
>| https://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/index/2004-12                   |
>|"                                                                    |
>|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
>
>Dear Dr. Levine:
>
>It may be OK, but December-2004 articles with the sequence numbers
>that are
>001
>002
>003
>040
>126
>127
>128
>129
>130
>131
>132
>133
>134
>135
>136
>137
>138
>139
>140
>141
>142
>143
>144
>do not exist but e.g.
>HTTPS://compilers.IECC.com/comparch/article/04-12-182
>does exist. I feel that these numbers hint at very many suspiciously
>inexistent articles. I confess that this does not prove anything.

You are aware that NNTP (the Usenet protocol) allows:

 - messages not yet posted to be canceled
 - posted messages to be explicitly deleted
 - messages to contain an expiration date header
   (after which the server may auto-delete them)

Deleted messages leave holes in the sequence.

Not all NNTP servers honor all (or even any) these operations - but
some do, and although 2004 is relatively recent, you should note that
in the past servers tended to be more permissive because many fewer
people were deliberately abusing them attempting to cause problems.

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Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-02-18 14:56 +0000
  Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-02-18 20:32 +0000
    Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-02-18 23:20 +0000
      Re: old new postings Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-02-19 02:46 +0000
        Re: old new postings Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-02-19 11:33 +0000
      Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-02-19 22:28 -0500

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