My RMS AOL messages have always been a few short of what shows (25 listed, 23 actually posted). I always chalked that up to killfiles, even though I only have three or four.
Over the last few days, however, it's been more like 1 in 10. Is RMS being flooded by the morons, or do I have a posting problem?
Happy new year to all.
Tom
Apparently you have an AOL problem. Try a news server that's not on AOL. Supernews is quite nice and their id10t filters are second to none. None of the recent hippyfloods made it to Supernews. End blatant plug, although I'm just a default Supernews user...
Couldn't say how many messages there were when I started and you're the last one in the threads but I believe there are considerably more than that on here. The level of moron posting is insignificant, IMHO.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
My latest download only shows killfiles for three messages out of 215. Granted that my killfile list probably differs drastically from yours, this is still extremely low. My guess is that the problem lies with your service.
Mark Schynert
Probably AOL (I'm on it as well). My listing gave 125 messages being here, but I only have 22 messages that I can access. The only kill files that I have currently are Az and Dex Hamilton, and a couple with racial or political headers.
-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger
I started having problems a couple of months ago, using the Mozilla reader through my ISP. After first denying the problem, the ISP finally admitted the link they have through the phone company was unreliable to the news servers. I thus had to use dejanews (now google). Every thing was fine for awhile, but now I to, like Tom, seem to find the message counts way down, and occasionally one of my posts does not make it. I suspect there is getting to be a system wide problem.
One problem may be that by far most net users do not use (nor are even aware of) newsgroups. Thus, any problems seem to be of very low priority to both the ISPs and the network companies. I suspect that now adays only about 2% of inet users even know that newsgroups exist.
Hmm...that message was dated 1-02-05 and it just showed up on my browser on the
15th. Clearly these messages are being cached at some point. hthThe Keeper (of too much crap!)
Yeah, AOL must be reading them first to see what we're saying about them. They're probably behind this rash of pill spam in retribution. ;)
Bill Banaszak, MFE
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