Please post name of "free public server" that actually carries this
group and carries it in full with all parts. No-one (not even google)
can find one so no wonder I have seen posts asking if it is dying.

TIA

piltdownman wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Please post name of "free public server" that actually carries this
> group and carries it in full with all parts. No-one (not even google)
> can find one so no wonder I have seen posts asking if it is dying.

Biggulp. See: http://www.readfreenews.com/

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Don't get Longhorned -- get Linux.

DC <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef:

> piltdownman wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>> Please post name of "free public server" that actually carries this
>> group and carries it in full with all parts. No-one (not even google)
>> can find one so no wonder I have seen posts asking if it is dying.
>
> Biggulp. See: http://www.readfreenews.com/

Good server, but it's so overloaded that it is almost unusable without
special binaries download software...

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JanC

"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9

JanC wrote in <Xns9478E6BED201JanC@213.119.4.35>:
> DC <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef:

>> piltdownman wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>>> Please post name of "free public server" that actually carries this
>>> group and carries it in full with all parts. No-one (not even google)
>>> can find one so no wonder I have seen posts asking if it is dying.

>> Biggulp. See: http://www.readfreenews.com/

> Good server, but it's so overloaded that it is almost unusable without
> special binaries download software...

It can be difficult to connect to, sometimes, yeah.

--
DC

Don't get Longhorned -- get Linux.

http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/index.html
or
http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/about2003PL.htm
?

"piltdownman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Please post name of "free public server" that actually carries this
> group and carries it in full with all parts. No-one (not even google)
> can find one so no wonder I have seen posts asking if it is dying.
>
> TIA

On 22 Jan 2004 02:13:13 GMT, DC <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>JanC wrote in <Xns9478E6BED201JanC@213.119.4.35>:
>> DC <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef:

< snip >

>>> Biggulp. See: http://www.readfreenews.com/

>> Good server, but it's so overloaded that it is almost unusable without
>> special binaries download software...

>It can be difficult to connect to, sometimes, yeah.

I suggest you change "sometimes" to "always". So much so it is
IMO a totally useless server.

Unless your newsreader has something like a "check server" every
five minutes. Running perhaps all day.

My Hamster might be able to repeatedly server check, just this one
server, but I don't feel like the usual jumping through hoops step of
working out how to write/install the appropriate script.

Regards, John.

John Fitzsimons wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On 22 Jan 2004 02:13:13 GMT, DC <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>JanC wrote in <Xns9478E6BED201JanC@213.119.4.35>:
>>> DC <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef:

>< snip >

>>>> Biggulp. See: http://www.readfreenews.com/

>>> Good server, but it's so overloaded that it is almost unusable without
>>> special binaries download software...

>>It can be difficult to connect to, sometimes, yeah.

> I suggest you change "sometimes" to "always". So much so it is
> IMO a totally useless server.

Has it gotten to be that bad? Wow. I used to use it all the time for
fills -- often took about 10 tries to get on. I didn't realise that it
has degraded to that extent.

Oh well, you do get what you pay for.

--
DC

Don't get Longhorned -- get Linux.

John Fitzsimons <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef:

> Unless your newsreader has something like a "check server" every
> five minutes. Running perhaps all day.

You'd better check all the time or it might take very long. :-)
Mike allows that you "hammer" the server as long as you don't (try to) make
more than 2 connections simultanously.

--
JanC

"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9

DC <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef:

> Has it gotten to be that bad?

I think (almost?) all the other servers that (intentionally) allowed free
access to binaries are closed.

--
JanC

"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9