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From: Boris <nospam@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Eternal-september problems
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 01:31:25 -0000 (UTC)
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guido wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> wrote in news:v98dqv$sdie$1@dont-email.me:

> Op 10-8-2024 om 20:52 schreef HenHanna:
>> On 8/10/2024 10:57 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>>>
>>>   Ar an deichiú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh occam:
>>>
>>>   > On 10/08/2024 08:12, Peter Moylan wrote:
>>>   > > If the eternal-september is behaving strangely for you, you're 
>>> not the
>>>   > > only one. I suspect that there's been a database corruption 
>>> that leads
>>>   > > to our being served with duplicate articles. I guess we just 
>>> have to
>>>   > > hope that it settles down soon.
>>>   > >
>>>   >
>>>   > It's a good free service, with occasional hiccups. This is the 
>>> reason
>>>   > why I switched to an alternative (almost free) service
>>>   > (news.individual.net) a few years ago. I still have 
>>> eternal-september as
>>>   > a backup. [This message is sent, courtesy of E-S.]
>>>
>>> I use news.individual.net and am very happy with it. In theory they 
>>> require a
>>> German domicile and my German IBAN from N26 is sufficient proof for 
>>> that for
>>> them. They accept payment using Paypal, I’m not sure what they do in 
>>> that event
>>> to confirm a German domicile.
>>>
>>
>>
>> really?   i'm not seeing any problems (recently) with E-S  (and TB).
> 
> My (and others') E-S newsgroups lost most of their content, only recent 
> messages were kept. Someone will try to restore them but it takes time, 
> three weeks for a start. See in e-s.support.
> 

Most of the newsgroups I subscribe to now only retain articles back to June 
29, 2024.  Retention used to be way back to 2022.  As you can see, I use 
Xnews.  I've tried "Refresh Headers Special", but none of the older 
articles comes back.

Wonder if this will be fixed.