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and since this test post took, i would guess it has decided to work. at least
for a while. so search quick. Regards FSt1 "FSt1" wrote: yes. and yesterday. and the day before. i think. i forget. anyway. MS is having one of it's mood where it just decides no to work. annoying at times. and this time google groups (which this forum seems to feed) want not working either. this is why some users have switched to news readers. not sure if you want to go that far. point is that now and then, this forum will just quit for a while, a day, two or what ever. complaining to MS doesn't seem to do any good. Regards FSt1 "Liz" wrote: No results are showing anytime I try to search this forum with the most basic word....I never had problems before....anyone else having problems with querying the forum today? |
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"Liz" wrote:
No results are showing anytime I try to search this forum with the most basic word....I never had problems before....anyone else having problems with querying the forum today? Common complaint among users of the MS Discussion Groups web interface. Its search feature is unpredictable, at best. Consider yourself lucky not to have encountered any problem before. No "perfect" alternative. Google Groups works best; but it has its share of problems. Success with a news reader that connects directly to the MSnews server or other archive of MS newsgroups depends on the reliability and features of the news reader/server. |
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"FSt1" wrote:
this is why some users have switched to news readers. Not a panacea. The MSnews server per se does not provide a search feature. (Don't know about other news servers that mirrior MS newsgroups.) Moreover, the MSnews server deletes articles older than 90 days. So search success depends on the features of the news reader as well as how complete your local cache of MSnews articles is. PS: I switched to accessing the MSnews server directly because that is the most reliable way to see articles archived there. Google Groups, for example, fails to archive some articles posted using the MS Discussion Groups web interface. I have yet to find a consistent rule to explain why. And of course, I cannot know if articles posted by other interfaces are also ignored by Google Groups. ----- original message ----- "FSt1" wrote: yes. and yesterday. and the day before. i think. i forget. anyway. MS is having one of it's mood where it just decides no to work. annoying at times. and this time google groups (which this forum seems to feed) want not working either. this is why some users have switched to news readers. not sure if you want to go that far. point is that now and then, this forum will just quit for a while, a day, two or what ever. complaining to MS doesn't seem to do any good. Regards FSt1 "Liz" wrote: No results are showing anytime I try to search this forum with the most basic word....I never had problems before....anyone else having problems with querying the forum today? |
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hi
you're right. but i was just pointing that out because of the "reliability" problem not the search. regards FSt1 "Joe User" wrote: "FSt1" wrote: this is why some users have switched to news readers. Not a panacea. The MSnews server per se does not provide a search feature. (Don't know about other news servers that mirrior MS newsgroups.) Moreover, the MSnews server deletes articles older than 90 days. So search success depends on the features of the news reader as well as how complete your local cache of MSnews articles is. PS: I switched to accessing the MSnews server directly because that is the most reliable way to see articles archived there. Google Groups, for example, fails to archive some articles posted using the MS Discussion Groups web interface. I have yet to find a consistent rule to explain why. And of course, I cannot know if articles posted by other interfaces are also ignored by Google Groups. ----- original message ----- "FSt1" wrote: yes. and yesterday. and the day before. i think. i forget. anyway. MS is having one of it's mood where it just decides no to work. annoying at times. and this time google groups (which this forum seems to feed) want not working either. this is why some users have switched to news readers. not sure if you want to go that far. point is that now and then, this forum will just quit for a while, a day, two or what ever. complaining to MS doesn't seem to do any good. Regards FSt1 "Liz" wrote: No results are showing anytime I try to search this forum with the most basic word....I never had problems before....anyone else having problems with querying the forum today? |
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Hmm,
I use the Microsoft news server directly with Windows Mail, but "reliability"? The news server has filters and some totally inoffensive words cause posts to be blocked. Interestingly some - not all - of those posts show up in Google. Then there seems to be some posters banned from MS news. In one thread I participated, about 10 days ago, one poster was totally blocked by the news server, his three posting can be found via Google, but I never got them from the news server. microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion, "Executables", Terry Austin. Helmut. "FSt1" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... hi you're right. but i was just pointing that out because of the "reliability" problem not the search. regards FSt1 "Joe User" wrote: "FSt1" wrote: this is why some users have switched to news readers. Not a panacea. The MSnews server per se does not provide a search feature. (Don't know about other news servers that mirrior MS newsgroups.) Moreover, the MSnews server deletes articles older than 90 days. So search success depends on the features of the news reader as well as how complete your local cache of MSnews articles is. PS: I switched to accessing the MSnews server directly because that is the most reliable way to see articles archived there. Google Groups, for example, fails to archive some articles posted using the MS Discussion Groups web interface. I have yet to find a consistent rule to explain why. And of course, I cannot know if articles posted by other interfaces are also ignored by Google Groups. ----- original message ----- "FSt1" wrote: yes. and yesterday. and the day before. i think. i forget. anyway. MS is having one of it's mood where it just decides no to work. annoying at times. and this time google groups (which this forum seems to feed) want not working either. this is why some users have switched to news readers. not sure if you want to go that far. point is that now and then, this forum will just quit for a while, a day, two or what ever. complaining to MS doesn't seem to do any good. Regards FSt1 "Liz" wrote: No results are showing anytime I try to search this forum with the most basic word....I never had problems before....anyone else having problems with querying the forum today? |
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"Helmut Meukel" wrote:
Then there seems to be some posters banned from MS news. I doubt that very much. The MSNews server might reject articles posted from some IP addresses, presumably based on well-known blacklist sites. (I object to the blacklists. In the past, "good" addresses have found their way onto blacklists; e.g. some of the many servers used by AOL.) However, I expect that articles posted from blacklisted IP addresses are never accepted by the MSNews server; I expect the TCP connection is rejected immediately. Ergo, they could never appear on sites that mirror the MS newsgroups, like Google Groups. On the contrary, since Austin's articles, posted to the MSNews server, do appear in Google Groups, the MSNews did accept those articles initially. microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion, "Executables", Terry Austin. Aka "Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy". Although I cannot spoof the IP address of Austin's news client, I did successfully post an article spoofing everything else, including Austin's "From" line. The article was posted successfully, and it survived on the MSNews server. Ergo, Austin is not "banned from MS news". The news server has filters and some totally inoffensive words cause posts to be blocked. All of Austin's postings include the mail header record "X-Suck-My-Dick: Suck.My.Dick", replacing periods with spaces. It is the phrase "suck.my.dick", replacing periods with spaces, that causes the article to be removed from the MSNews server. Interestingly some - not all - of those posts show up in Google. It depends on when Google (actually Giganews) pulls articles from the MSNews server. The MSNews server does not block articles immediately. Instead, there appears to be a process that runs either periodically or after an article is accepted. The process scrubs a newsgroup or newsgroups of articles with "offensive" strings. Sometimes, the process is delayed, presumably due to the load on the MSNews server. If the delay is long enough -- I have experienced delays of more than 5 minutes -- other news servers might have time coincidentally to pull the article before it is removed from the MSNews server. In this case, the "offensive" string is understandable, although I object to censorship of any kind. (Except for spam, ideally. But in practice, spam cannot be avoided without innocent casualties.) However, I have also noted in the Excel newsgroups that articles with the strings "on o" and "xy z", without spaces, are removed from the MSNews server, presumably due to an unintentionally overly-aggressive filter configuration. Some MVPs have forwarded these observations to people within MS. But I would not hold my breath for a correction, at least for the latter two examples. ----- original message ----- "Helmut Meukel" wrote in message ... Hmm, I use the Microsoft news server directly with Windows Mail, but "reliability"? The news server has filters and some totally inoffensive words cause posts to be blocked. Interestingly some - not all - of those posts show up in Google. Then there seems to be some posters banned from MS news. In one thread I participated, about 10 days ago, one poster was totally blocked by the news server, his three posting can be found via Google, but I never got them from the news server. microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion, "Executables", Terry Austin. Helmut. "FSt1" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... hi you're right. but i was just pointing that out because of the "reliability" problem not the search. regards FSt1 "Joe User" wrote: "FSt1" wrote: this is why some users have switched to news readers. Not a panacea. The MSnews server per se does not provide a search feature. (Don't know about other news servers that mirrior MS newsgroups.) Moreover, the MSnews server deletes articles older than 90 days. So search success depends on the features of the news reader as well as how complete your local cache of MSnews articles is. PS: I switched to accessing the MSnews server directly because that is the most reliable way to see articles archived there. Google Groups, for example, fails to archive some articles posted using the MS Discussion Groups web interface. I have yet to find a consistent rule to explain why. And of course, I cannot know if articles posted by other interfaces are also ignored by Google Groups. ----- original message ----- "FSt1" wrote: yes. and yesterday. and the day before. i think. i forget. anyway. MS is having one of it's mood where it just decides no to work. annoying at times. and this time google groups (which this forum seems to feed) want not working either. this is why some users have switched to news readers. not sure if you want to go that far. point is that now and then, this forum will just quit for a while, a day, two or what ever. complaining to MS doesn't seem to do any good. Regards FSt1 "Liz" wrote: No results are showing anytime I try to search this forum with the most basic word....I never had problems before....anyone else having problems with querying the forum today? |
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