OT to FOAK about my news server(s)

It might be the lowest bandwidth one for you. It won't be for anyone
strip-mining the binary groups for warez, which is no doubt why they
throttle it.

 

I thought Pipex were a 1/2 decent business class ISP. Don't they have
a separate non-binaries newsserver?

 

Fuct if I know.

 

I think they *were*.

Tiscali are like AIDS for the interwebby

 

In the sense of being a decent ISP, they were, yonks ago. Then they were
bought by a firm who were snapping up ISPs and hosting firms left, right
and centre and rebranded once they'd acquired the Pipex brand. I just
have no idea what their NNTP server arrangements are like.

 

I have been down that route and the answer is "**** all". I was
*promised* by tech support a written response within 48 hours, which
would have been last Thursday, and still nothing. I did go via
"customer services" and I got a response that; (a) didn't address my
complaint, and (b) suggested any further comments should be returned
via a Tiscali web form. Clever sods, the Tiscali security isn't setup
for Pipex customers, so you cannot logon. So I sent them a reply by
email and again their response did not address my comments.

So, in summary (and like others have also commented), Pipex are
useless.

 

Yes they do have a text only newsserver, but Tiscali have put all NNTP
traffic in the same class as binaries, P2P, torrent, etc according to
the one intelligent life-form I spoke to on their help desk.

 

"Were" is the right term, I think. They certainly were when I signed
up with them a few years ago. In the last couple of years, and
especially since the Tiscali purchase, their standards have gone down
like a randy schoolteacher on one of his pupils.

If they did, they never told me about it.

 

text-news.dsl.pipex.com

 

They were in the dim and distant past - before they got bought up by
pikey penny-pinchers & lawyers.

Phil

 

OK, do they're lazy as well as dumb.

<bear>

avoid, avoid, avoid!

</bear>

<fx: thinks>

Where /is/ bear, anyway?

 

I'm sure that won't be a big problem.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

Busy with a life, apparently.

--
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WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
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Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

<puzzled>

how'd that happen?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

I have *no* idea.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

I thought he'd killfiled so many people that he thought we'd all got a
life and drifted away in a haze of confusion.

 

www.alt.com I should imagine

<googles>

Hmmm, bye bye everyone....

 

I'll sign it as well.

 

(The Older Gentleman) :

I was going to say could you sign it on behalf of a few
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