Boron Elgar wrote:

>
> The Optonline news server has been completely trash the past 2-3 days.
> I only use it as my back up news feed.
>
> As a primary, I heartily recommend a German news server that works
> flawlessly. They do not handle binary groups, though, in case that is
> something you use.
>
> http://news.individual.net/
>
> Boron

A more accurate statement would have been, "The Optonline new server
IS completely trash" *period*. One of the worst I've ever
encountered. I use news.individual.net as well. It's not great but
it's miles ahead of OOL. And OOL doesn't show any signs of improving
it either.

--
Steve

Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there... I'm gonna
eat the next thing that comes outta it's ass?"