On 2007-12-06, Ed Huntress wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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On 2007-12-06, Ed Huntress wrote:

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So, if it was something worthwhile, sorry.

Not likely. Your news server has probably killed off the sporge,
or the source machine upstream has sent out cancels for it all, and your
news server is actually *honoring* the cancels :-)

Don't worry about the "no longer available" -- it is junk.

Enjoy,
DoN.

Ah, that's a relief. Thanks, Don.

The thing that throws me is that the posts in question were from legit
members and they were on current threads. But when I go to Google to see
if they show up on Google Groups, they're not there. Of course, Google
tends to lag, so I'll check again.

--
Ed Huntress

Whoop, they're showing up now. Those messages are indeed legit messages that
my server says are "no longer available." But they're showing up on Google
Groups.

Hmm ... then your news server's admin was overly zealous in
killing off the sporge. He flushed the entire newsgroup, and then hoped
that the real ones would propagate back in over time (and they probably
will, as long as he also blew away the "history" record of
"Message-ID: "s received).

Enjoy,
DoN.

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