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    From JNugent@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 02:07:56 2023
    A post appears in my feed, this time not from "S Mason" but from "Simon
    Mason", posted at 19:15 on Sunday 3rd December.

    The Title is:

    "Re: Mercedes van driver jailed for killing schoolgirl Lexi McDavid who
    was getting off a bus in Huyton, Merseyside"

    There is no post behind the title. Only the following message:

    QUOTE:
    (I) Article not found

    The newsgroup server reports that it can't find the article.

    Newsgroup server responded: Bad article number
    Perhaps the article has expired?
    Try searching for article: <[email protected]> (962277)
    ENDQUOTE

    There is also a button marked "Remove All Bad Posts".

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to JNugent on Mon Dec 4 09:10:53 2023
    JNugent <[email protected]> wrote:
    A post appears in my feed, this time not from "S Mason" but from "Simon Mason", posted at 19:15 on Sunday 3rd December.

    The Title is:

    "Re: Mercedes van driver jailed for killing schoolgirl Lexi McDavid who
    was getting off a bus in Huyton, Merseyside"

    There is no post behind the title. Only the following message:

    QUOTE:
    (I) Article not found

    The newsgroup server reports that it can't find the article.

    Newsgroup server responded: Bad article number
    Perhaps the article has expired?
    Try searching for article: <[email protected]> (962277)
    ENDQUOTE

    There’s no such message with that date and time showing up here.

    I wonder if NIN is performing a two-stage approach, the first one removes
    the message body, the second then removes the message entirely in a
    separate purge. I may have downloaded the group after you did, so I missed
    the one that you saw.

    Google Groups is unhelpful in that one can’t see message headers.

    There is also a button marked "Remove All Bad Posts".

    Oh…so tempting…:-)

    --
    Spike

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