On 3/11/2024 1:50 PM, Joel wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/cq9SfVI.png

Did you unsubscribe and resubscribe all your blocknews groups?

Blocknews moved some/all of the groups to a new server, and assigned new article numbers to all the posts in all the groups they moved. This
messed with the continuity of the article numbers I captured in my
database. I fixed that, but they should've kept the old numbers.

But they also dropped alt.comp.os.windows-11, and lost all the old
articles dating back to Nov 2021.

And the new server seems very slow - whereas I used to submit a post and
it was available 2-3 seconds later, now I won't get it from the server
for 10 minutes sometimes.

It's a letdown after years of stellar blocknews service.

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On 3/11/2024 5:43 PM, Joel wrote:

Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:

I was able to use BlockNews in Thunderbird, but not Agent. Couldn't
get it to succeed in pulling headers. Went back to Eternal September.

Some "Relf" type parochial third-world nut might've fucked it up for them. >>
Use German servers. They're maintained by first-world people, not
"Mormons" and alike.

It's not a major loss, since I have the account as a backup with
Thunderbird, or even binaries if I wished. But Agent can settle on
E-S.

Does eternal-september drop cross-posts from certain groups or users?

Using E-S, I'm not getting anything from those morons on alt.checkmate
or alt.usenet.kooks.

I'm glad, but curious what's happening.

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On 3/11/2024 7:20 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

Does eternal-september drop cross-posts from certain groups or users?

Using E-S, I'm not getting anything from those morons on alt.checkmate
or alt.usenet.kooks.

I'm glad, but curious what's happening.

Not sure, probably there's just a lull in activity.

No lull.

Those losers cross-posts to cola come through on blocknews, but not on eternal-september. I guess they're banned by E-S for crossposting or by
name or for something in the post.

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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 22:55 this Monday (GMT):

On 3/11/2024 5:43 PM, Joel wrote:

Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:

I was able to use BlockNews in Thunderbird, but not Agent. Couldn't
get it to succeed in pulling headers. Went back to Eternal September.

Some "Relf" type parochial third-world nut might've fucked it up for them. >>>
Use German servers. They're maintained by first-world people, not
"Mormons" and alike.

It's not a major loss, since I have the account as a backup with
Thunderbird, or even binaries if I wished. But Agent can settle on
E-S.

Does eternal-september drop cross-posts from certain groups or users?

Using E-S, I'm not getting anything from those morons on alt.checkmate
or alt.usenet.kooks.

I'm glad, but curious what's happening.

I think Ray filters it?
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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