On Jul 30, 7:02*am, Tommy Joe > wrote:
> On Jul 29, 8:26*am, John Kuthe > wrote:
>
> > Let's see how long it takes this message to appear back to me...
>
> * * They were down for two days, then up for a day, and now they're
> down again. *I know goggle groups is free, so I'd rather not complain
> about the occasional glitch, but this has been happening quite a bit
> lately. *

It is a chronic problem lately, and in contract to past pretty good
performance it sucks royally.


> What bugs me is not so much the actual problem, whatever it
> is, but rather the way Google doesn't say anything about it. *

Google had become like MicroFAIL. Too big for it's own britches and
they know they don't have to care.


> It's
> like being in a traffic jam. *If you know what's causing it, it's not
> going to get you out of there faster, but for some reason it relieves
> some of the stress of being stuck when you know why. *This is
> happening too often for them to not say something about it, and that
> ****es me off. *I'm not concerned so much with how long my posts take
> to show up as I am with whether they're going to show up period.

I sent them a note (email) after drilling down through an obscure path
and finally finding a "contact us" page and filling out an email form,
which seems to make a small difference, IOW groups updated once a day
after, but are once again offline. :-( And I tried signing up and
apparently did register for eternal-september.org and got an email
back with my username and initial password, but have never been able
to get to news.eternal-september.org, where the email said I should go
to log in.

So I dunno.

John Kuthe...