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Re: Larritarians of the world, unite.
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:40:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, tim##NO_SPAM##@ams.co.nz (Tim McSweeney) writes:
> > ps How odd... the original article that my comment was in reply to seems to
> > have disappeared. How is anyone supposed to take it in context if someone
> > steals the context?
Tim,
Here is the original article that your tasteless comment was in reply to:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.off-topic.fun:870
Here is your tasteless comment replying to that article:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.off-topic.fun:874
As you later discovered below, the original article does indeed still exist
(at least still now at the time I'm posting this) yet the thread tree is
incorrect.
> No it hasn't ,Damn, Why won't these replies follow threads properly?
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> Todd?
Here is some earlier information on the same problem:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.general:824
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.general:830
I believe this is a broken newsreader problem. (Not at read-time but at
post-time.) Once a thread tree gets to about 15 or 16 nodes deep and
exceeds a certain number of characters (512 in the NNTP spec and 256 in some
other broken cases), the Message-ID's on the tail end get truncated and
lost. Note that this is not a problem inherent to NNTP; this problem is due
solely to careless programming in newsreaders. I don't know if all
newsreaders are broken, but we've seen several instances of this so far.
--Todd
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