"Simonb" wrote in message
.. .
Gareth Slee wrote:
Just come in from work and found over 4000 unread messages!
Things seem to have calmed down now though.

I'm using NIN.
Is everyone else now seeing this?

Been happening all day since about 1.30pm. I must have deleted about
40'000
postings today!



Seems like I've been lucky? Just come onto Usenet, and all the spams have
gone. Sorry to here contributors have been having a torrid time. Hopefully
it'll not happen again for some time.

--
Joe
Wolverhampton

In article ,
Jim Webster writes:
what is interesting is how little effect it actually has. Whilst the
automatics may have trouble sorting it the human eye can just skim down
through the downloaded headers and for some reason the 'real' ones tended to
cluster together.

Your newsreader probably sorts threads by the time of the first (or
only) post in the thread. That would tend to cluster the flood posts
together, thus having the effect of a;so clustering the "real" ones
together.
--
John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)

In article ,
Jim Webster writes:
what is interesting is how little effect it actually has. Whilst the
automatics may have trouble sorting it the human eye can just skim down
through the downloaded headers and for some reason the 'real' ones tended to
cluster together.

Your newsreader probably sorts threads by the time of the first (or
only) post in the thread. That would tend to cluster the flood posts
together, thus having the effect of a;so clustering the "real" ones
together.
--
John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)

In article ,
Jim Webster writes:
what is interesting is how little effect it actually has. Whilst the
automatics may have trouble sorting it the human eye can just skim down
through the downloaded headers and for some reason the 'real' ones tended to
cluster together.

Your newsreader probably sorts threads by the time of the first (or
only) post in the thread. That would tend to cluster the flood posts
together, thus having the effect of a;so clustering the "real" ones
together.
--
John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)

In article ,
Jim Webster writes:
what is interesting is how little effect it actually has. Whilst the
automatics may have trouble sorting it the human eye can just skim down
through the downloaded headers and for some reason the 'real' ones tended to
cluster together.

Your newsreader probably sorts threads by the time of the first (or
only) post in the thread. That would tend to cluster the flood posts
together, thus having the effect of a;so clustering the "real" ones
together.
--
John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)

In message 1109018027.b07b80281b1a3c2f65ebc7aea4ef6280@teran ews
Kermit wrote:

Only 4000? I had 35788!
Pete in (un) snowy Sussex

Yes, I had something like that. Gave up downloading them and reset my
counters.

Martin
--
Created on the Iyonix PC - the world's fastest RISC OS computer.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/

In message 1109018027.b07b80281b1a3c2f65ebc7aea4ef6280@teran ews
Kermit wrote:

Only 4000? I had 35788!
Pete in (un) snowy Sussex

Yes, I had something like that. Gave up downloading them and reset my
counters.

Martin
--
Created on the Iyonix PC - the world's fastest RISC OS computer.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/

In message 1109018027.b07b80281b1a3c2f65ebc7aea4ef6280@teran ews
Kermit wrote:

Only 4000? I had 35788!
Pete in (un) snowy Sussex

Yes, I had something like that. Gave up downloading them and reset my
counters.

Martin
--
Created on the Iyonix PC - the world's fastest RISC OS computer.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/

In message 1109018027.b07b80281b1a3c2f65ebc7aea4ef6280@teran ews
Kermit wrote:

Only 4000? I had 35788!
Pete in (un) snowy Sussex

Yes, I had something like that. Gave up downloading them and reset my
counters.

Martin
--
Created on the Iyonix PC - the world's fastest RISC OS computer.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/