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On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:20:52 -0000 (UTC), Niocl|is P||l Caile|in de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote: >|---------------------------------------------------------------------| >|"Here's the index for December 2004. Looks OK to me. |
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| https://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/index/2004-12 |
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Dear Dr. Levine:

It may be OK, but December-2004 articles with the sequence numbers
that are
001
002
003
040
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
do not exist but e.g.
HTTPS://compilers.IECC.com/comparch/article/04-12-182
does exist. I feel that these numbers hint at very many suspiciously >inexistent articles. I confess that this does not prove anything.

You are aware that NNTP (the Usenet protocol) allows:

- messages not yet posted to be canceled
- posted messages to be explicitly deleted
- messages to contain an expiration date header
(after which the server may auto-delete them)

Deleted messages leave holes in the sequence.

Not all NNTP servers honor all (or even any) these operations - but
some do, and although 2004 is relatively recent, you should note that
in the past servers tended to be more permissive because many fewer
people were deliberately abusing them attempting to cause problems.
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