On 2012-02-16 03:28:08 +0000, tony cooper said:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:23:53 -0500, Alan Browne
> <> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-02-15 17:21 , tony cooper wrote:
>>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:58:17 -0500, Alan Browne
>>> <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2012-02-15 15:08 , tony cooper wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:37:40 +0000, Pete A
>>>>> <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Well, he did reply _during_ September. Is that unusual for a September post?
>>>>>
>>>>> It just appeared today. That is unusual.
>>>>
>>>> You sure? Sometimes I'll temporarily have posts sorted by name or
>>>> subject and then reply to a post that I think is very recent - only to
>>>> find it is months old after I reply to it. Mildly embarrassing.
>>>
>>> Agent, the way I have it set up, shows only unread posts. Posts are
>>> sorted by thread. I don't remember the post from when it appeared in
>>> September, but I "read" all posts. Reading sometimes means clicking
>>> it open and then clicking the next one (as with most RichA posts), but
>>> all posts are opened. This one just appeared today.
>>
>> Very odd. Did you examine the full header?
>
> No. My assumption, in retrospect, is that news.individual.net (my
> news server) belched up the post like the taste of
> day-before-yesterday's curry and mistakenly sent it to Agent (my news
> reader) as "Unread". Or, maybe, sun spots or the Mayans are messing
> with me.
My news service seems to operate in round robin mode for load
balancing. This would be fine if the servers were actually in sync, but
often they are not. Occasionally, one of two things happen:
1. I get the new headers, but cannot read some of the messages until
hours later.
2. I get one or a bunch of headers from years ago.
To work around it I used to reset all the newsgroups, but that was a
real pain. Now, I've set a filter to delete everything that's more than
one month old and have unsubscribed from the high volume
rec.photo.digital newsgroups.
Cross-posted messages get really screwed up when the servers are not in
sync. Examples: a message I've read will reappear as unread; when
replying, the reader will sneakily remove one of the groups (I think
this problem was fixed in an update last year).
Or, as Tony said, it's sun spots or the Mayans. Perhaps I'm emitting
too many alpha particles or cosmic rays.
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