Tobias Megies

I think we should just add a warning to be shown or even a `ValueError` if `Stream._trim_common_channels()` ends up being unable to do its job due to too large misalignment....

I also find it quite odd, that the three channels have their timing shifted on sub sample scale. Why would the digitizer decide to use different sample timing for the...

> would this be the only reason why this error is produced? ie., you wouldn't expect inconsistent data gaps between channels otherwise? Well, I didn't expect this one, so not...

Actually, maybe it's a better and more lightweight / less changes approach to rather create a `ChannelCode` object and use that in existing `Stats` instead of the approach of subclassing...

As this PR becomes more of a favorite for me, I've added more details and improved the original description for this PR.

> can't it be restricted to the first N lines of the file? Then what if DAT1 comes on line N+1? ;-P It's not a problem here, more of a...

Sounds absolutely reasonable to me. Happy to get a PR for it (off of master branch)! :+1:

CC @chad-earthscope

CC @crotwell I tried to mail to that Earthscope mailing list but my sender mail address changed and my mails didn't go through, I contacted the person sending the original...

So, actually the problem also occurs outside of (threaded) service discovery in regular requests. At this point, I think this is a server side issue. Last thing to try is...