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From: hgcjr@utastro.UUCP (Harold G. Corwin Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Missing Parts - Why?
Summary: About 2/3 items posted make it through
Message-ID: <4111@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 20:16:57 GMT
References: <2286@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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In article <2286@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie) writes:
> Why are there so many instances of missing parts on c.b.i.p?
> Just today:
> 	PC-OMEGA SUPPORT files - Part 2 only
> 	KFORTUNE - Part 2 only
> 	SFS - Parts 1 thru 4 and 6
> Where do these parts get lost?
Even a follow-up article to a similar complaint that I sent out 
a few weeks ago seems to have fallen into the same black hole.  To
repeat the essence of that, we get only about two thirds of what
is posted (e.g. parts 1 and 2 of zoo2.0, parts 2 and 3 of zoo2.01
on its first post, etc.  Frustrating, to say the least).
     I wonder if one or several of the "backbone" sites are getting
so overloaded that they periodically "throw up their hands in 
despair" and simply rm or "mail nul" everything in their transfer
queues. 
> How can the problem be corrected?
     No idea; I'm a user, not a net guru.  Any ideas, news gurus?  
Could us users help somehow, say by not posting so much (but 
communication is the reason for the net ...), or can we cut out 
some of the "noise" groups (but the "noise" groups are generally 
fun for at least a few of us, or they wouldn't exist), or .... I'm 
stuck there.  Carry on, netlanders.
Harold Corwin
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