new.aioe.org problem

Seems to be having problems.

Especially the alt.windows7.general seems dead.

Is OK through other news services.


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On 04/01/2016 03:15, OldGuy wrote:
Seems to be having problems.

Especially the alt.windows7.general seems dead.

Is OK through other news services.




Doesn't matter. You can post on Linux newsgroup. They are desperate to
get more users of their newsgroup.

Just make sure you ask them Windows questions !!!!.


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OldGuy wrote:
Seems to be having problems.

Especially the alt.windows7.general seems dead.

Is OK through other news services.


Paolo moved the server, and redid it.

All posting history is lost (i.e. retention).

The groups list was also modified, and he is using
a standard group list of some sort. That means
"custom" items like alt.windows7.general were
removed.

Check aioe.news.helpdesk for latest status.

I really doubt he is going to do a "delta"
and figure out what got lost. So it's going
to take some "complaining" to put it all back.

Paul

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:14 -0800, OldGuy wrote:

Seems to be having problems.

Especially the alt.windows7.general seems dead.

Is OK through other news services.

| From: Paolo Amoroso
| Newsgroups: aioe.news.helpdesk,aioe.helpdesk,aioe.system
| Subject: Server maintenance
| Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:50:51 +0100
| Message-ID:

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Paul wrote:
OldGuy wrote:
Seems to be having problems.

Especially the alt.windows7.general seems dead.

Is OK through other news services.


The group has been put back on AIOE.

The server article numbers will not
match the article numbers in your newsreader.
So it's possible the group will still appear
"dead". You will have to work on your news
client program to fix that.

For Seamonkey/Thunderbird, it's possible you
will have to remove contents from the AIOE folder
and start again. Some news clients, if you
unsubscribe and re-subscribe a group, the article
numbering is fixed for free. It doesn't work that way
on Thunderbird, and so you'd need to manually intervene,
setting all the entries in the newsrc to 1-1 or similar,
flushing all the .msf and .dat files and so on.

nntp.aioe.org.rc

alt.windows7.general: 1-123938

would become

alt.windows7.general: 1-1

As the client program connects to the server and
articles are read, the second number will advance.
(It's more complicated than that...)

And these files keep track of headers or something.
And may be indexed by article number. You would
think they could be re-indexed (by MID).

alt.windows7.general.dat 27 bytes \___ remove and
alt.windows7.general.msf 42,508,464 bytes / start over?

I haven't even connected to AIOE since this change,
as I expect there is a "big mess" waiting for me.
I use AIOE as the backup server, in case E-S is out
of commission.

Paul

Paul wrote:
Paul wrote:
OldGuy wrote:
Seems to be having problems.

Especially the alt.windows7.general seems dead.

Is OK through other news services.


The group has been put back on AIOE.

The server article numbers will not
match the article numbers in your newsreader.
So it's possible the group will still appear
"dead". You will have to work on your news
client program to fix that.

For Seamonkey/Thunderbird, it's possible you
will have to remove contents from the AIOE folder
and start again. Some news clients, if you
unsubscribe and re-subscribe a group, the article
numbering is fixed for free. It doesn't work that way
on Thunderbird, and so you'd need to manually intervene,
setting all the entries in the newsrc to 1-1 or similar,
flushing all the .msf and .dat files and so on.

nntp.aioe.org.rc

alt.windows7.general: 1-123938

would become

alt.windows7.general: 1-1

As the client program connects to the server and
articles are read, the second number will advance.
(It's more complicated than that...)

And these files keep track of headers or something.
And may be indexed by article number. You would
think they could be re-indexed (by MID).

alt.windows7.general.dat 27 bytes \___ remove and
alt.windows7.general.msf 42,508,464 bytes / start over?

I haven't even connected to AIOE since this change,
as I expect there is a "big mess" waiting for me.
I use AIOE as the backup server, in case E-S is out
of commission.

Paul

Well well.
With all the talk about backup on this newsgroup ya woulda thunk ...

Anyway, I disconnect and reconnected and no have 10 posts ... only.

Fortunately I am also using
freenews.netfront.net
And that one seems to have problems once in a while too.

E S is OK I guess but for some reason I rather use AIOE or Freenews.

Thanks for the feedback!
Now I know what to do.

Wonder why that newsgroup go hit especially hard?
Onward ...

Looks like AIOE has killed off many of the past posts of all newsgroups.
Searching nightmare.
Hopefully other services will remain viable.

It will take some work to rebuild here on my several PCs.
UnSubscribe and Subscribe.
And AIOE was the most reliable of the services I use.

Rant over.


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