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Re: Is anyone there?

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Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2016-01-02, Osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> "Dave Garland" wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/2/2016 12:45 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year's - and that
>>>> everyone has been too busy with festivities to post here.
>>>> Otherwise, is there something wrong with my news feed?
>>>> I haven't seen anything in this group - or in any other
>>>> groups to which I'm subscribed - for a week or so.
>>>
>>> Must be your feed, I count ~130 in a.f.c. in the last week.
>>>
>>> Of course, you won't see this either.
>>
>> I tried to send him e-mail.  It failed.
>
> Actually, e-mail made it to me from several of you.  (Many thanks.)
> Indeed, as some pointed out, Newsguy had some sort of message
> renumbering that got my newsreader out of sync.  I got a flood
> of old messages in a couple of groups, while most others (including
> this one) appeared to dry up.  I've reset everything, and managed
> to retrieve and read the backlog (as you've no doubt noticed in
> other threads).
>
> Secure from battle stations.
>
They did do a renumbering, IIRC, the day before Xmas.  From
what I saw, newsguy renumbered back to 0.  My hypothesis
is that one of the newsgroups overflowed the message number
field so they had to restart everything with a larger field.
they have done this about every two or three years since I've
been using them.

/BAH

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Is anyone there? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-02 18:45 +0000
  Re: Is anyone there? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-01-02 13:29 -0600
    Re: Is anyone there? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-02 13:32 -0600
      Re: Is anyone there? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-03 05:27 +0000
        Re: Is anyone there? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-03 15:49 +0000
        Re: Is anyone there? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-01-04 12:33 -0500
  Re: Is anyone there? Bernd Felsche <berfel@innovative.iinet.net.au> - 2016-01-03 22:53 +0800
    Re: Is anyone there? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-03 18:00 +0000

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