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[Scrumpy]

Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote in
news:slrnaebejr.oqd.gerhard at lilith.my-fqdn.de: 

> Peter Hansen wrote in comp.lang.python:
>> I was posting messages to this newsgroup for almost two weeks at the 
>> end of April and beginning of May. [...] Well, my service provider's
>> news system was swallowing all my posts, keeping them locally (so I
>> could see they were posted) but never upfeeding them into the rest of
>> Usenet. [...] 
> 
> Already happened to me, too. In doubt, it helps to check
> http://groups.google.com/ a few hours later to see if it has arrived
> upstream (or check with a different nntp server if you have access to
> one).
> 
> Gerhard

I think this is a good suggestion. I'll try that in the future when posting 
to a newsgroup that I've never posted to previously.

Don't want to be accused of being a flamebaiter! ;-)

Cheers,
Scrumpy :)