Cathy, did you ever get a reply from usenet-news? I don't recall
hearing of it and I've not seen you on chat forever.

I just sent them a too-the-point note asking whether they are going to
do anything about their non-quality service or just pay it lip
service. I first addressed them on the issues we've discusse here on
rfc as far back as a year ago and the problems have only increased.
Quite frankly, I'm looking for a new provider. I can get service this
poor at no cost whatsoever.

nb

notbob wrote:

> Cathy, did you ever get a reply from usenet-news? I don't recall
> hearing of it and I've not seen you on chat forever.
>
> I just sent them a too-the-point note asking whether they are going to
> do anything about their non-quality service or just pay it lip
> service. I first addressed them on the issues we've discusse here on
> rfc as far back as a year ago and the problems have only increased.
> Quite frankly, I'm looking for a new provider. I can get service this
> poor at no cost whatsoever.

I did mention in another thread (last week?) that support came back and
said it seemed to be a hardware issue... Seemed to improve somewhat
after that. They also asked me to please report any (further) problems,
which I will do if necessary.

However, I haven't been posting much in the last week so I can't say if
there are still issues with that - but I haven't had any problems
pulling the headers and reading threads... Posting seems OK today tho'.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

ChattyCathy wrote:

> I did mention in another thread (last week?) that support came back
> and said it seemed to be a hardware issue... Seemed to improve
> somewhat after that. They also asked me to please report any
> (further) problems, which I will do if necessary.

It did improve to the extent it didn't ask for my password for a few
days. Then it cropped up again, but it hasn't been so much of a
problem. Definite improvement.

nancy

"Nancy Young" > wrote in
on Sep Sun 2009 07:17 am

> ChattyCathy wrote:
>
>> I did mention in another thread (last week?) that support came back
>> and said it seemed to be a hardware issue... Seemed to improve
>> somewhat after that. They also asked me to please report any (further)
>> problems, which I will do if necessary.
>
> It did improve to the extent it didn't ask for my password for a few
> days. Then it cropped up again, but it hasn't been so much of a
> problem. Definite improvement.
>
> nancy
>

Go read your book... you gotta finish it, I says! It talks about your look which seems to be another NJ
thing, like poofie hair. BTW you gots this poofie hair?

--
Is that your nose, or are you eatting a banana? -Jimmy Durante

Nancy Young wrote:

> ChattyCathy wrote:
>
>> I did mention in another thread (last week?) that support came back
>> and said it seemed to be a hardware issue... Seemed to improve
>> somewhat after that. They also asked me to please report any
>> (further) problems, which I will do if necessary.
>
> It did improve to the extent it didn't ask for my password for a few
> days. Then it cropped up again, but it hasn't been so much of a
> problem. Definite improvement.

DH runs something called 'leafnode' for the newsgroups he reads (pulls
from usenet-news and two other filler-servers) and I see that the logs
have indicated the odd authentication error in the last day or three,
but nowhere near as bad as it was a week or two ago; so, yes, I'd say
there has been an improvement, but it hasn't disappeared completely.
Thing is, if one uses leafnode it keeps retrying to pull headers and/or
post every 10 minutes or so (depending how one has it configured) - so
if one of his posts doesn't get through on the 'first pass' it usually
gets through on the next, so to him it's No Biggie.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

notbob wrote:

> Cathy, did you ever get a reply from usenet-news? I don't recall
> hearing of it and I've not seen you on chat forever.
>
> I just sent them a too-the-point note asking whether they are going to
> do anything about their non-quality service or just pay it lip
> service. I first addressed them on the issues we've discusse here on
> rfc as far back as a year ago and the problems have only increased.
> Quite frankly, I'm looking for a new provider. I can get service this
> poor at no cost whatsoever.

I actually just worked out what it's cost us for using this service for
the last 4 years or so.

<drum roll>

A whole US$0.02c a day. I'd say that's pretty reasonable. But I seem to
recall that you're not much interested in binaries, so why not just use
a freebie news service e.g. news.eternal-september.org (PKA
motzarella.org)?

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:43:28 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> ChattyCathy wrote:
>>
>>> I did mention in another thread (last week?) that support came back
>>> and said it seemed to be a hardware issue... Seemed to improve
>>> somewhat after that. They also asked me to please report any
>>> (further) problems, which I will do if necessary.
>>
>> It did improve to the extent it didn't ask for my password for a few
>> days. Then it cropped up again, but it hasn't been so much of a
>> problem. Definite improvement.
>
> DH runs something called 'leafnode' for the newsgroups he reads (pulls
> from usenet-news and two other filler-servers) and I see that the logs
> have indicated the odd authentication error in the last day or three,
> but nowhere near as bad as it was a week or two ago; so, yes, I'd say
> there has been an improvement, but it hasn't disappeared completely.
> Thing is, if one uses leafnode it keeps retrying to pull headers and/or
> post every 10 minutes or so (depending how one has it configured) - so
> if one of his posts doesn't get through on the 'first pass' it usually
> gets through on the next, so to him it's No Biggie.

two weeks or more ago it was acting up a little more than now. but as you
say, on the second try the stuff goes through, so no reason to sweat it.

your pal,
blake