XPost: talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen, alt.philosophy.zen   
   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: hollywoodlee@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/19/2010 7:01 AM, Lee Rudolph wrote:   
   > Julian  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 19/08/2010 13:04, Lee Rudolph wrote:   
   >>> Julian   writes:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 19/08/2010 10:52, syringe nipples wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> for 2 and a half months my sent folder has been saving my messages in   
   >>>>> firefox and they number just over 5,000, that sounds more realistic. i   
   >>>>> did use google groups temporarily in that period but very shortly.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 5000 sent, cross posted to perhaps 4 or 5 groups   
   >>>> is 20 to 25 thousand posts in the Google archive   
   >>>> no matter which posting method you use.   
   >>>   
   >>> If so, a further testimony to the utter cackhandedness   
   >>> of Google when it comes to Usenet.   
   >>   
   >> It's not really Google fault that Usenet works that way   
   >> with a copy of every post sent to every group in its list.   
   >   
   > Say what?   
   >   
   > My understanding is that in Usenet (and altnet, etc.) proper,   
   > a news server (say, the one at panix.com, where I read and   
   > post; or--I have always assumed--those at Eternal September   
   > and the like) keeps a "news spool" with one copy of each   
   > post that has both (1) a "Newsgroups:" header that includes   
   > at least one of the set of newsgroups supported by the server   
   > (and perhaps none of a set of newsgroups blacklisted by   
   > the server), (2) a "Date:" header that indicates a date   
   > and time within the server's non-expiration interval   
   > for the relevant newsgroup(s).  The server then serves   
   > *that copy* to any client that requests it *in any of   
   > the server's supported newsgroups that appears in the   
   > "Newsgroups:" header.  One file (or subfile of a unitary   
   > newsspool, if that be the case), many avatars.  To do   
   > otherwise (as you seem to believe that Google--and indeed   
   > Usenet servers in general--do]es[) would be profligate   
   > of diskspace (which was once, after all, at rather more   
   > of a premium than it is nowadays).   
   >   
   > It's a pity we can't consult on this with any geeks,   
   > but of course no geeks read these groups.   
      
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   and those who don't.   
      
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