Re: Disappearing Posts

From: John McGimpsey (jemcgimpsey_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:18:57 -0700

I'm certainly not an expert in the CDO interface. I dislike it intesely,
and won't use it if any alternatives exist (so far, they have). But
while I'm not defending it, I also believe there would be a much greater
uproar if that was the common experience.

Some messages are filtered by spam filters and for objectionable content
(i.e, porn, foul language), but I see nothing in your posts to indicate
that that's what's going on.

Searching the MS groups and using Google may give different results
since in searching MS, you're searching a live server which may or may
not have retained your post, while in searching Google, you're searching
a static archive that sucks up everything that hits it (with a lag time
of 2-8 hours).

And, AFAIK, the MS server farm hasn't had a major outage since last
November or so.

In article <966f01c3ea66$3580e7b0$a401280a@phx.gbl>,
 "MWE" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> The problem is a little more complex than just lost
> posts.
>
> I have done some testing and found that only 80% of my
> posts actually get posted initially. I assumed that this
> was due to the MS NewGroup being "down" when I posted. I
> did go back and looked to see if anyone else was able to
> post around the time I did and normally there are no
> posts. Systems go down, but I do wish that MS would tell
> you that rather than let you assume that everything was OK.
>
> At least 3 times, I have lost posts initially "there" and
> was unable to find them using (1) the search tool and (2)
> very carefully going through each page back for at least a
> week before the post.
>
> In frustration with the interface and these problems, I
> migrated to the ExcelTip.com forum as my interface into
> the MS Excel Programming newsgroup. This has worked quite
> well, but I have recently noticed that the flow of info
> from MS Newsgroup to ExcelTip Forum is not consistent
> (flow from ExcelTip to MS seems to still be OK).
>
> If I can not find the post doing a search from the MS
> NewGroup, why would I be able to find it using a Google
> search?