On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:31:58 -0500, Steve Calvin
> wrote:

>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.


I figured it was just a server re-set that told me one of my favorite
groups had 88k+ messages to download. New server would, too, of
course. Too bad it doesn't seem to be able to deliver more than a
small fraction of them.

As I mentioned, I used it as a backup for .de. When I wanted to go
trace a message back a couple of days, OOL would be ideal , because it
dumped every few days & I only got what I was usually looking for.

I'd say give them a few days to get it running well, but I also know
that OOL customer service generally does not even know what Usenet is.
Ah well.

It is so easy to use multiple servers with Agent that I do not fret
much over OOL.

Boron