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Re: Missing conversations

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On 2/10/2016 9:50 AM, Justin wrote:
> I'm mostly just a troll here, I do most programming in C++ now.  But
> I like to read the message board to keep my java skills sharp.  I've
> noticed recently, for certain users, I will get notified via email
> that they've posted, but when I go to the forum, I don't see their
> post.  Further, I see other users quoting their posts so I know they
> are there.
>
> I also saw somebody else complaining about the same thing in a
> thread, but it wasn't addressed and I can't find the post now.  Any
> ideas whats going on?

Usenet is not a guaranteed eventual consistency distributed system.

Things happen.

A server can miss some posts and not recover properly due to a good
old fashioned software bug.

A message can be cancelled and some servers do the cancel and others
do not.

It is possible to add certain headers to messages that will make
some servers bit not all use non-default archiving policy.

Even though it is expected behavior then setting followup to
a group not in the original dist list can make a thread suddenly
appear.

Also replies to a message expired on your server (but not on
posters server) can also make thread suddenly appear.

Arne

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Missing conversations Justin <justin.lottes@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 06:50 -0800
  Re: Missing conversations Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 07:52 -0800
    Re: Missing conversations Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-02-10 17:28 +0000
  Re: Missing conversations Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-02-10 21:47 -0500

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