Has someone just cleared a newsgroup blockage?

[ARWadsworth]

I just received 179 messages that are 2 days old.

And some of them were from good posters.

[Mr Pounder]

Sleep with me tonight? I won't ask again.

[Bob Eager]

I did too.

It must be all those caustic soda posts.

[ARWadsworth]

Now define a good poster:-)

[John Williamson]

Google groups appears to have been holding on to a couple of days' worth of posts. Stuff posted on real usenet has apparently been arriving there, but it's been a one way street.

[Chris Hogg]

I believe that posts made via Google were not getting through to usenet. The posts appear on Google, but not on broader usenet. The reverse was not a problem, i.e. posts on usenet were being displayed on Google.

Google may now have sorted the problem and what you saw was the backlog.

[Muddymike]

I just received 179 messages that are 2 days old.

But more of them were crap.

Mike

[Clive George]

[Tim Downie]

[Muddymike]

Very good.

Mike

[The Natural Philosopher]

that would explain why my news provider went all 'slow' for a while.

[Jules Richardson]

[Bob Eager]

No, they weren't hers! She borrowed them...

[ARWadsworth]

Ta. But that made me wonder what she would look like if she did that in

2012.

And some women are like a good wine. They taste better as they age.

[Nick Odell]

[Owain]

And some turn all sharp and vinegary. But you never know until you open the bottle.

Owain

[PeterC]

Hence "sniff it before you taste it".

[Huge]

still a good-looking lady.

[tony sayer]

Indeed:!..

I remember a couple of years ago on the bridge from the south bank in London there was a woman who must have been around 70 but she was tall and slim immaculately and stylishly dressed with tresses of long grey hair and the way she held herself and walked .. simply sheer class:)

[grimly4]