From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Articles getting lost ... (Re: soc.islam)
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:38:17 GMT

paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Atharvan)
writes on soc.culture.indian:

)                 I dont know of any arbitrary limit to the number of
)   articles that the news systems can serve at a time.

Nothing whatsoever. Infinity is the limit. :-)

)                                              This is SCI.

Oh Yeah. But I am surprised that I have the ability to kill stuff so
fast that I am done reading SCI in 5 minutes. :) 

)   Anybody knows about this ?
)   Do articles get lost because of overload ?
)   Any limit on the number of articles in a unit time period?
)   Sridhar ? If there is it deserves a place in the FAQ.

As far as my understanding of trn's thread presentation goes, atleast
one or two (worst case) articles might have been lost. But even if
there are lost articles, no problem. There is no dearth of people who
quote the previous posts fully. :) Even trn barfed in this case. I had
to manually assemble parts of the thread tree.

Hey, where is the Subject line net.cop when you need him dearly!! It
is amazing what just one key could do in the case of 128 articles in
the same thread. :)

Here are the conspirators along with their evil :) change of the
Subject line...

  Paul C. Chemmano   Islam & Rushdie -- Icarus.
  Mujtaba Ghouse     Islam and Science
  Heather Noel Bob   henna /mandi
  Kannan Subramani   Not entirely about Islam & Rushdie
  V Nagarajan        Secularism?
  Atharvan           Islam and Science and Formal Logic.
  Manoj Ghayalod     secularism
  Jawad Ali          Dr Abdul Kadir?
  Srinivas Patri     Girls
  Srinivas Patri     Bhaiyo tatha baheno

[1] Islam & Rushdie -- Icarus.
[2] Islam and Science
[3] henna /mandi
[4] Not entirely about Islam & Rushdie
[5] Secularism?
[6] Islam and Science and Formal Logic.
[7] secularism
[8] Dr Abdul Kadir?
[9] Girls
[A] Bhaiyo tatha baheno

[Trn's thread tree truncated for the benefit of 80-column folks]
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