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[Gerhard Häring]

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
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