Is it me?

or is it iinet's news server.

Haven't seen any posts since 15th March.

N/

 

It's not you.

 

I disagree I'm with iiNet and use their (free) news server.

Thunderbird's picked up 35 dated 16/3 and 36 dated 17/3..

Not saying it's you but my end of the same thing appears to have traffic OK.

 

It's probably not you, more likely your news reader. Nothing wrong with
iinet's news feed. Try unsubscribing, and resubscribing. I'd remove
all data files associated with the newsgroups in the middle of that too.

Nev..
'07 XB12X
'08 DL1000K8

 

No NEW posts, but lots activity in older threads. I'm waiting for an
on-topic question that I know the answer to, that hasn't already been
answered correctly by someone else.

 

I dont feel Newsgroups have a long life for some aussie ISP's.. the
would love to piss them off and not worry . Finding a good o/s one
would be nice.

Optus is hopeless with theirs

 

ISPs should love newsgroup users. The software probably hasn't needed
any maintanence since 2000. The physical news server hardware
probably never need to be upgraded as the load would be decreasing not
increasing. They use bugger all resources, they are probably more
likely to be utilised by customers who are paying for high end ADSL
speeds but use bugger all bandwidth.

Most 'pre-netscape' ISPs would have grown their businesses around
providing news, email and FTP clients so you'll probably find these
ISPs still maintain a good news-service, but for 'post-Netscape' ISPs,
like the big telcos, it would be a very low priority as the people
running these companies are business people, not enthusiasts, so the
focus is on shareholder returns. To address your specific issue, you
already have an o/s ISP. Why not find a good local one instead? The
smaller the better usually, but big ISPs which started small are
probably a better choice than big ISPs which started big.

Nev..

 

Actually there are increasing numbers of newsgroup users who are only
interested in newsgroups as a source of various binary files (Tv shows,
movies etc) and those users place a huge load on NNTP servers.

To such an extant that various companies have arisen purely to deal with
this subgroup of newsgroup user and they sell subscriptions to various
high performance, high retention news servers.

Other ISP's (like Internode) have taken it upon themselves to provide
access to these high performance newsgroup servers (at some significant
cost to themselves) for their clients.


G-S

 

Before we dropped ours we found we had one user, me, and the newsfeed
was costing us $200 aa month. And those were all txt-only groups.

Theo

 

I was about to leap in to defend internode in response to the
previous poster. Whilst internode does have some of the most
fundamentally incompetent managers and accountants I've ever
had the misfortune to deal with, their techs and their technical
service is top notch.

I very much appreciate their usenet service, but I do wonder at
the appropriateness of supporting, much less hosting, the
binaries and binaires[1] groups. It seems to me that hosting
the pirates and their customers only serves to bring usenet
into disrepute and to increase costs for everyone. Sans binaries,
usenet is so low-bandwidth in modern terms that it is nearly
free.

I suppose the alternate reading of the situation might well be
that the binaries are what keeps usenet alive for all of us.

Food for thought.


GB

[1] Deliberate and traditional misspelling designed to bypass
filters, also see 'pr0n'.

 

Pay less than $20 a year and use news.individual.de. It is bloody great.

Fraser

 

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