Re: Google groups crap today
- From: FCS <sipston_777@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 May 2007 19:47:13 -0700
On May 21, 1:26 pm, Sofa - Spud <comfyso...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 21 May, 13:14, Ed <eabow...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Google keeps putting up message headers but claiming "There are no
more messages on this topic. All messages in this topic may have
expired or been deleted." when you click on them
Very annoying
It's been gitchy for a few weeks now - 10 hour delay in posts showing
up , new posts not appearing though they say there are new posts .
What gets me is the posting limit - just how many posts are you
allowed per day/hour??
I agree it's been glitchy for a while now and
it's a shame that I can't say I've been using
it constantly albeit I have been using it for
longer than I care to remember - about 6 or 7
years off and on now.
I found that, for example, there was a thread
that had been cross-started in a rec and a uk
group. The exchanges were all pretty firmly a
uk thing but all I could get was the original
post--until I went back to the first group it
was posted to as listed by google, in the rec
hierarchy, where I was finally able to remove
my somewhat general and late post which I had
made on the basis it hadn't been answered for
3 days or more before I then caught up what'd
actually been said.
In the uk hierarchy all google would retrieve
was the original post, although with a bit of
persistence I managed to retrieve 20 or so of
the 50-odd posts to date.
Given that google has always been run from US
servers, I wonder is it a consequence of last
weeks' press-reported decision to remove from
US active forces their access to both YouTube
and MySpace as an anti-propaganda precaution?
I say this because YouTube has been bought by
google and also because ARPAnet, alongside of
JANET, has formed the bulk of the traditional
USENET backbone. It may not affect uk groups,
per se, but, whether or not they form a large
enough quota for a struggling google net, now
working off a significantly impaired feed, to
count as low-priority traffic, is a different
matter.
The entire thread was there in rec and seemed
to work fine, so my guess is it's purely a uk
and google glitch that may iron itself out in
time. Hopefully.
I had no idea there were posting limits BTW.
As the reports made it quite clear there was
no restriction on forces personnel using the
various WWW interfaces in off-duty time, the
major criticism in the press was for leaving
those personnel who benefit most from their
contact with the outside world, ie those out
at the front line, with no connection.
Depending where they're stationed, it may be
possible that the primary uk feeds are being
swamped now--by US forces using UK MOD feeds
on an informal basis. But that's now getting
not only into the realms of total guesswork,
but also into danger of looking somewhat the
spoilsport when I've no objection to that as
a workable hackaround.
Alternatively, since the buyouts, Google has
become as fair game for scriptkids and other
tedious miscreants as HoTMaiL--I have seen a
fair amount of criticism of them not so much
concerning the records they keep marrying up
URLs with search terms for the WWW but of it
being something they do with Gmail too. What
verity there may be in these accusations is
a different matter entirely.
G DAEB
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