OT - Newsgroup server problems

Well, I'm soooo frustrated. After weeks of only one or two messages a
day, and many missing messages in threads, I discovered our local
newsgroup server seems to be hiccuping, or in the past few days, not
even breathing. Out of 661 threads posted recently, I've received only
about ~240 messages. The only way to read a thread completely is to read
it somewhere on line, which takes up too much of my time and ties up my
phone for too long. If I had any extra money, I'd get DSL installed now
and maybe even choose a different ISP.

Sorry for the vent -- hope all your ponds are well and thriving. We've
had a few days of rain and a 20* drop in temperatures, then a few days
of sunshine and a 15* rise in temperatures, so the koi don't know what's
up or down. But they're still begging for food -- one even sits at the
surface with his mouth open and sucking until I toss something in it,
whether it's koi food, an earthworm or a piece of pond plant. Too funny!

There, now I feel a little better, posting about my pond.
--
zookeeper
3500gal pond, 13 pond piggies
Oregon, USDA Zone 7

zookeeper wrote:
Well, I'm soooo frustrated. After weeks of only one or two messages a
day, and many missing messages in threads, I discovered our local
newsgroup server seems to be hiccuping, or in the past few days, not
even breathing. Out of 661 threads posted recently, I've received only
about ~240 messages. The only way to read a thread completely is to read
it somewhere on line, which takes up too much of my time and ties up my
phone for too long. If I had any extra money, I'd get DSL installed now
and maybe even choose a different ISP.

Sorry for the vent -- hope all your ponds are well and thriving. We've
had a few days of rain and a 20* drop in temperatures, then a few days
of sunshine and a 15* rise in temperatures, so the koi don't know what's
up or down. But they're still begging for food -- one even sits at the
surface with his mouth open and sucking until I toss something in it,
whether it's koi food, an earthworm or a piece of pond plant. Too funny!

There, now I feel a little better, posting about my pond.
--
zookeeper
3500gal pond, 13 pond piggies
Oregon, USDA Zone 7



ZK

There are plenty of free access news servers out there.

I am posting this test from one now. freenews.netfront.net

News Servers Posting Total Groups Total
Articles New Groups New Articles
freenews.netfront.net Y 48625 5130056
7 469562

From the list at this link
http://www.free-newsservers.com/free_list1.asp The above server has the
most groups for a server that allows posting, It does not seam to have
the best retention rate for rec. ponds (only 388 messages when I tested
it out today)

You could try my ISPs server (reader2.news.rcn.net) it MAY be READ
ONLY when logged on as a guest. I'm Not sure.

Username: guest
P/W : guest

Chagoi

Thank you for this post. My news server (optonline) has been driving me
nuts. I sometimes cannot even get posts from the previous day. This is
exactly what I needed.

DKat


"xyz" wrote in message ...
ZK

There are plenty of free access news servers out there.

I am posting this test from one now. freenews.netfront.net

News Servers Posting Total Groups Total
Articles New Groups New Articles
freenews.netfront.net Y 48625 5130056
7 469562

From the list at this link
http://www.free-newsservers.com/free_list1.asp The above server has the
most groups for a server that allows posting, It does not seam to have
the best retention rate for rec. ponds (only 388 messages when I tested
it out today)

You could try my ISPs server (reader2.news.rcn.net) it MAY be READ
ONLY when logged on as a guest. I'm Not sure.

Username: guest
P/W : guest

Chagoi

Your Welcome

I've used; freenews.netfront.net several times when RCNs server was down
to read newgroups
but I never posted through it until now.

Chagoi


dkat wrote:
Thank you for this post. My news server (optonline) has been driving me
nuts. I sometimes cannot even get posts from the previous day. This is
exactly what I needed.

DKat


"xyz" wrote in message ...

ZK

There are plenty of free access news servers out there.

I am posting this test from one now. freenews.netfront.net


SNIP


You could try my ISPs server (reader2.news.rcn.net) it MAY be READ
ONLY when logged on as a guest. I'm Not sure.

Username: guest
P/W : guest

Chagoi

Thank you for this post. My news server (optonline) has been driving me
nuts. I sometimes cannot even get posts from the previous day. This is
exactly what I needed.

DKat


"xyz" wrote in message ...
ZK

There are plenty of free access news servers out there.

I am posting this test from one now. freenews.netfront.net

News Servers Posting Total Groups Total
Articles New Groups New Articles
freenews.netfront.net Y 48625 5130056
7 469562

From the list at this link
http://www.free-newsservers.com/free_list1.asp The above server has the
most groups for a server that allows posting, It does not seam to have
the best retention rate for rec. ponds (only 388 messages when I tested
it out today)

You could try my ISPs server (reader2.news.rcn.net) it MAY be READ
ONLY when logged on as a guest. I'm Not sure.

Username: guest
P/W : guest

Chagoi

sorry for the double post... I'm still working the bugs out. My optonline
server has 189 messages while the new one has 3191... problem is that I
can't get the good one to post....
DK
"dkat" wrote in message
et...
Thank you for this post. My news server (optonline) has been driving me
nuts. I sometimes cannot even get posts from the previous day. This is
exactly what I needed.

DKat


"xyz" wrote in message ...
ZK

There are plenty of free access news servers out there.

I am posting this test from one now. freenews.netfront.net

News Servers Posting Total Groups Total
Articles New Groups New Articles
freenews.netfront.net Y 48625 5130056
7 469562

From the list at this link
http://www.free-newsservers.com/free_list1.asp The above server has the
most groups for a server that allows posting, It does not seam to have
the best retention rate for rec. ponds (only 388 messages when I tested
it out today)

You could try my ISPs server (reader2.news.rcn.net) it MAY be READ
ONLY when logged on as a guest. I'm Not sure.

Username: guest
P/W : guest

Chagoi

This is a test to see if I can post to: ( reader2.news.rcn.net) while
logged on as a guest.

IF you can read this it means it worked!

If you are using ( freenews.netfront.net ) you should be able to post.
If you are trying to use ( )
user: guest; password: guest.
I do not think you can post.


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:42:28 GMT, "dkat"
wrote:

sorry for the double post... I'm still working the bugs out. My optonline
server has 189 messages while the new one has 3191... problem is that I
can't get the good one to post....

DK
"dkat" wrote in message
. net...
Thank you for this post. My news server (optonline) has been driving me
nuts. I sometimes cannot even get posts from the previous day. This is
exactly what I needed.

DKat


From the list at this link
http://www.free-newsservers.com/free_list1.asp The above server has the
most groups for a server that allows posting, It does not seam to have
the best retention rate for rec. ponds (only 388 messages when I tested
it out today)

You could try my ISPs server (reader2.news.rcn.net) it MAY be READ
ONLY when logged on as a guest. I'm Not sure.

Username: guest
P/W : guest

Chagoi

Well it seemed to work OK!
I just installed "Agent" newsreader to try logging on as a guest.
It DIDN't ask for a username or a password so it seems that you
SHOULD BE ABLE post to ( reader2.news.rcn.net) with no problem.

Chagoi


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:51:28 -0400, wrote:

This is a test to see if I can post to: ( reader2.news.rcn.net) while
logged on as a guest.

IF you can read this it means it worked!

If you are using ( freenews.netfront.net ) you should be able to post.
If you are trying to use ( )
user: guest; password: guest.
I do not think you can post.

zookeeper wrote:
Well, I'm soooo frustrated. After weeks of only one or two messages a
day, and many missing messages in threads, I discovered our local
newsgroup server seems to be hiccuping, or in the past few days, not
even breathing. Out of 661 threads posted recently, I've received only
about ~240 messages. The only way to read a thread completely is to read
it somewhere on line, which takes up too much of my time and ties up my
phone for too long. If I had any extra money, I'd get DSL installed now
and maybe even choose a different ISP.

Sorry for the vent -- hope all your ponds are well and thriving. We've
had a few days of rain and a 20* drop in temperatures, then a few days
of sunshine and a 15* rise in temperatures, so the koi don't know what's
up or down. But they're still begging for food -- one even sits at the
surface with his mouth open and sucking until I toss something in it,
whether it's koi food, an earthworm or a piece of pond plant. Too funny!

There, now I feel a little better, posting about my pond.
--
zookeeper
3500gal pond, 13 pond piggies
Oregon, USDA Zone 7



ZK

There are plenty of free access news servers out there.

I am posting this test from one now. freenews.netfront.net

News Servers Posting Total Groups Total
Articles New Groups New Articles
freenews.netfront.net Y 48625 5130056
7 469562

From the list at this link
http://www.free-newsservers.com/free_list1.asp The above server has the
most groups for a server that allows posting, It does not seam to have
the best retention rate for rec. ponds (only 388 messages when I tested
it out today)

You could try my ISPs server (reader2.news.rcn.net) it MAY be READ
ONLY when logged on as a guest. I'm Not sure.

Username: guest
P/W : guest

Chagoi

You're not alone - I'm on my 5th ISP. The first four were all locals,
and were all disasters. Now on Earthlink, no serious complaints.

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:14:49 -0700, zookeeper
wrote:

Well, I'm soooo frustrated. After weeks of only one or two messages a
day, and many missing messages in threads, I discovered our local
newsgroup server seems to be hiccuping, or in the past few days, not
even breathing. Out of 661 threads posted recently, I've received only
about ~240 messages. The only way to read a thread completely is to read
it somewhere on line, which takes up too much of my time and ties up my
phone for too long. If I had any extra money, I'd get DSL installed now
and maybe even choose a different ISP.

Sorry for the vent -- hope all your ponds are well and thriving. We've
had a few days of rain and a 20* drop in temperatures, then a few days
of sunshine and a 15* rise in temperatures, so the koi don't know what's
up or down. But they're still begging for food -- one even sits at the
surface with his mouth open and sucking until I toss something in it,
whether it's koi food, an earthworm or a piece of pond plant. Too funny!

There, now I feel a little better, posting about my pond.
--
zookeeper
3500gal pond, 13 pond piggies
Oregon, USDA Zone 7


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