"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:10:31 +0100, dennis@home wrote:



"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...


Lol, to a non existent group *again!*

(Incoming clue by 4: there is no group called dev.null, dev is not a
valid top level organisation)

You need a better provider, it exists here or it would complain of an
unresolved group.

No, it doesn't.

Well lets put it this way..
yes it does.

You need a better reader, pan was never very good even for the users that
know how to use it.

You can't even copy the name correctly.

albasani has alt.dev.null and dev.null
datemas has alt.dev.null
astraweb has neither

looks like geof and firth will have to call you a liar.

Maybe Usenet isn't quite as perfect as you appear to think it is.
its not surprising to me as the RFC is vague and some readers implement
things in different ways, servers implement things is different ways, even
the same server code can have different configurations. What does surprise
me is how well it does hold together, but it does still fall apart quite
easily.