Ah, I think I finally understand what you are saying. Google groups
runs it's own usenet server(s). The problem is thus indeed *all* with
google. Looks like google ran out of disk space for their usenet
server. That phone number should come in handy in the future.
On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Mark S Bilk wrote:
The Google Groups website was not getting updated. The last posts
in talk.politics.misc and comp.os.linux.advocacy, both high-volume
newsgroups, were dated about 7am 7/17 -- yesterday. The last post
showing in sci.astro was dated 5:28am yesterday. The last post in
the Gravimagnetics thread is yours from 5:26am yesterday.
This happens every couple of months. I finally got through to a
phone operator, who wouldn't tell anyone that Groups has not
been updated for 27 hours. Of course she treated it as my problem
and said they don't give phone support. She told me to go to
Groups Support on the website, and it turns out that the only way
to tell them about anything is to post a message in one of the
support groups, which of course doesn't work. I told the operator
over and over again that it's a recurring problem with Google that
they need to fix, and that I'm a computer engineer and I didn't
need any personal help. She finally said she would tell someone,
but I don't know if that was just to get rid of me.
But in any case, I think someone has fixed it. The latest articles
in those three newsgroups are now from about 7:40am yesterday.
It will take many hours for the system to catch up and show recent
posts.
Google's phone number is 650-623-4000.
Mark
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
