Test

Raistlin wrote:
> Test

Failed

EPIC FAIL

alt.test, where are you??

Cork Soaker wrote:
> EPIC FAIL
> 
> alt.test, where are you?? 
> 
> 
I've never understood why people get quite so upset about this.

For example, someone posts an on-topic message to a news group but it 
doesn't appear. So they investigate and send messages to an appropriate 
test group (which only an idiot wouldn't use as they can give email 
confirmation, allowing the problem to be localised to send or receive). 
They think the problem is fixed.

What next?

Wait until they do have an on-topic post to send? No one has any problem 
with that.
Send a, "I agree" post to an existing thread. Very few would take 
exception to that.
Start a new on-topic thread on an invented subject. No one would have 
any problem with that.

But just because they send a test message to check that they can post to 
the group where their posts weren't appearing before - people take umbrage.

Surely the odd, infrequent and not-repeated "test" message isn't that 
much of a problem?

--
Sue

Palindrome wrote:
> Surely the odd, infrequent and not-repeated "test" message isn't that
> much of a problem?

Couldn't the same be said of the odd, infrequent and not-repeated "spam" 
message too?

Personally I wouldn't mind if it was the only way, but it's not -- there are 
groups set up for the purposes of testing, and people should use them and 
leave the "real" groups as free of unwanted noise of possible. There's 
enough junk already being posted.

(Incidentally, I'm using this message to test posting through a new news 
server, as the nntp.aioe.org server I've been using for months has recently 
disappeared -- fingers crossed! ;-)

-- 

(O)enone

In <UvUWj.454594$uN4.365825@fe07.news.easynews.com>, Palindrome
 wrote:

>Cork Soaker wrote:
>> EPIC FAIL
>> 
>> alt.test, where are you?? 
>> 
>> 
>I've never understood why people get quite so upset about this.

Why ever not? It's really simple to understand - it's because (in this
case) someone is not using uk.test which was explicitly created and set
aside for the purpose of testing posts to groups in the uk.* hierachy.

>For example, someone posts an on-topic message to a news group but it 
>doesn't appear. So they investigate and send messages to an appropriate 
>test group (which only an idiot wouldn't use

Well yes. As you put it, only an idiot wouldn't use an appropriate test
group. Idiots - and/or people who don't know better - instead use the
normal groups for test posts.