Is this the day Usenet died?

Nov 17, 2008 7 Replies

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Adrian

"Dave Baker" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were Just your server, Dave. It's all working fine here.

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No posts showing up today in any of the groups I read when normally there'd be hundreds. Clearly something in the system has gone pop.


"Dave Baker" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Just your server, Dave. It's all working fine here.

...and here also.

Chris

Chris Whelan gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

'course, Dave won't actually SEE these replies...

I thought the whole system is designed to survive a nuclear holocaust?

:-)

Of course he will. He's sensible enough to check via Google Groups.

Chris

I did, a couple of times during the day yesterday, and there was nothing showing up there either. Everything has finally appeared sometime last night between now, 7am, and when I last checked in at about 2am I think it was.

datemas.de does this fairly frequently. I had nothing show up yesterday either.

Steve

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