AN interesting article

On 25 Nov 2005 14:21:18 -0800, "Colorado Bicycler" <[email hidden]>

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http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3249958

(Sorry if this is a repeat posting. I posted this about 1 hour ago and
haven't seen the post show up yet)

Well, I saw it OK - it showed up promptly here in Brunswick (Germany)
which is not exactly next door, so maybe your ISP's news server is
dragging the chain a bit.

Seems the whole google groups system (which I use since my ISP dropped
usenet) went down for two days, and is just now catching up, something
that was not apparent to me when I posted the second post.

Sorry!

"Colorado Bicycler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Seems the whole google groups system (which I use since my ISP dropped
usenet) went down for two days, and is just now catching up, something
that was not apparent to me when I posted the second post.

Google Groups is always slow in showing postings. It's predecessor, Deja
News, also was slow.

Mike Kruger said:

"Colorado Bicycler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Seems the whole google groups system (which I use since my ISP dropped
usenet) went down for two days, and is just now catching up, something
that was not apparent to me when I posted the second post.

Google Groups is always slow in showing postings. It's predecessor, Deja
News, also was slow.

sunsite.dk has just dropped the entire <rec.*> hierarchy. It appears
to be entirely composed of computing related groups now.

"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Mike Kruger said:

"Colorado Bicycler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Seems the whole google groups system (which I use since my ISP dropped
usenet) went down for two days, and is just now catching up, something
that was not apparent to me when I posted the second post.

Google Groups is always slow in showing postings. It's predecessor, Deja
News, also was slow.

Google is ten times faster than Deja -- have you used Google news lately?

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sunsite.dk has just dropped the entire <rec.*> hierarchy. It appears
to be entirely composed of computing related groups now.

Sunsite dropped basically all their newsgroups. So then I tried teranews,
but I couldn't seem to configure it right, and they had zero customer
service, so that was a few bucks (not many) down the drain. Fortunately,
earthlink is now working for me -- they seem to have gotten their act
together.

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Claire Petersky said:

Quoted message said:

sunsite.dk has just dropped the entire <rec.*> hierarchy. It appears
to be entirely composed of computing related groups now.

Sunsite dropped basically all their newsgroups. So then I tried teranews,
but I couldn't seem to configure it right, and they had zero customer
service, so that was a few bucks (not many) down the drain. Fortunately,
earthlink is now working for me -- they seem to have gotten their act
together.

Sunsit still has a measley 4525 groups
<alt.comp.*>, <alt.os.*>, <comp.*>, <emacs.*>, <gnu.*>, <linux.*>,
<opera.*> and whole whack of <microsoft.public.*> [censored], etc.

The only groups I noticed that aren't necessarily related to computing
or their server are the <dk.*> groups with the
<dk.marked.privat.cykel> being the sole bicycling group I saw.

Not since I have been using it for about 6 months now. Generally, it
takes about 5 seconds for the message to post. Yesterday seems to have
been an atypical system failure.

"Colorado Bicycler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Not since I have been using it for about 6 months now. Generally, it
takes about 5 seconds for the message to post. Yesterday seems to have
been an atypical system failure.

I often experience substantial delays in seeing my postings when I post via
Google Groups.

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:43:36 -0800, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]>

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sunsite.dk has just dropped the entire <rec.*> hierarchy. It appears
to be entirely composed of computing related groups now.

Interesting - some were suggesting sunsite.dk as an alternative to
news.individual.net, when it ceased to be a free server. Glad I
didn't follow that idea up.