[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: posting to news.newsguy.com
From: |
Michael Powe |
Subject: |
Re: posting to news.newsguy.com |
Date: |
04 Mar 2005 20:23:49 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
>>>>> "Floyd" == Floyd L Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> writes:
Floyd> Michael Powe <michael+gnus@trollope.org> wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone else is having problems posting to newsguy.
>> Last week, gnus decided it wouldn't post to gnu.emacs.help.
>> Today, it's decided it won't past to comp.mail.mutt. I emailed
>> newsguy about it last week and their response was that there
>> wasn't anything going on with that newsgroup; and the only
>> thing they could see out of the ordinary was that my newsreader
>> was disconnecting and reconnecting repeatedly in a short period
>> of time.
>>
>> I have been using gnus for so long that I dread the thought of
>> trying something else, but it seems like there's always some
>> little thing like this that's getting borked up. I know I'm
>> being grouchy but ... I just want it to work.
Floyd> I used to use newsguy.com as my primary news server, but
Floyd> had an experience similar to that some time back, and
Floyd> switched to using my ISP's news service (which they
Floyd> recently changed from another server to supernews.com,
Floyd> which did not make me at all happy, as I'd dropped
Floyd> supernews a couple years before in favor of newsguy...).
yeah, i just re-upped on newsguy, too. i got on them because my isp
went to an outsourcer and there were just all kinds of problems.
articles would disappear, get renumbered -- yeah, that was cool. that
was a few years ago, though.
Floyd> Anyway, at one point newsguy did something to their server
Floyd> that made an older version of gnus stop working, and trying
Floyd> to deal with them to find out what was going on was nothing
Floyd> short of a total pain. Eventually I just upgraded to what
Floyd> was then the latest version of gnus, and all was well
Floyd> again. But it really annoyed me to have a network control
Floyd> type tell me they had done absolutely nothing, and that if
Floyd> they had a problem there would be thousands and thousands
Floyd> of complaints, and there weren't. (I'm a retired long
Floyd> distance telecom weenie, and I *know* that you can have
Floyd> major disasters that only show up with a few little
Floyd> complaints... which when investigated turn out to be the
Floyd> tip of an iceberg with thousands and thousands of calls
Floyd> being dropped!)
Floyd> Whatever... I just tried posting to alt.test using
Floyd> newsguy's server, twice. It takes the article. The next
Floyd> time I update, I see that there is one unread article
Floyd> listed for alt.test. However, no new article is actually
Floyd> available. An article posted to supernews.com did show up,
Floyd> at least on supernews.com, though not on newsguy.com. And
Floyd> then, 24 minutes after it was posted to newsguy.com, the
Floyd> first of my articles has shown up on supernews.com, but
Floyd> none of them have shown up on newsguy.com as yet.
Floyd> It appears they are experiencing temporary technical
Floyd> difficulties... ;-)
Well, they "batch post" -- posts go out every 15 minutes. So, there
is an annoying delay in there. But I am able to post in here and in
alt.test at the same time i can't post in the other newsgroup. it's
just weird. Gnus acts like it's sending, an article ID is generated,
but it's hung. If i leave it long enough, the connection will close.
Thanks. I may have to give the isp connection another try.
mp
--
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.