- NTLworld newsgroups closed, Virginmedia news server AWOL
- Posted by Frazer Jolly Goodfellow on March 13th, 2007
This evening the ntlworld branded newsgroups on
text.news.ntlworld.com are showing this message:
"This newsgroup has now been closed as its purpose is now served
by the new virginmedia.discussion.broadband newsgroup. If you
are not already subscribed to this group, please refresh your
newsgroup list and you should be able to add it accordingly.
Regards,
The team at Virgin Media "
However, the replacement servers, news.cable.virginmedia.com and
news.virginmedia.com, aren't reachable for me.
<sigh>
Are they working for anyone else?
- Posted by Simon Pickard on March 13th, 2007
"Frazer Jolly Goodfellow" <no-spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98F2CA676B24Afrz@80.5.182.99...
I'm still using the text.news.ntlworld.com server and I can see the new
newsgroups ok. So I would just keep with the text.news.ntl.......
Simon
- Posted by {{{{{Welcome}}}}} on March 13th, 2007
Frazer Jolly Goodfellow wrote:
Just keep to the server you are using now and refresh the list, there
are many xNTL posts on there.
text.news.virginmedia.com is the one I'm now using, this for me just
points to the old blueyonder service, not sure if it would point to the
old ntl service on xNTL.
- Posted by Frazer Jolly Goodfellow on March 13th, 2007
"{{{{{Welcome}}}}}" <bhx___spam@trapped___hotmail.co.uk> wrote in
news:5HDJh.4672$DX5.4348@text.news.blueyonder.co.u k:
I can ping text.news.ntlworld.com OK, but can't see any virgin
groups on that server. Pinging news.cable.virginmedia.com returns
'could not find host' responses. Looks like a delay in DNS updates
reaching this part of the galaxy (South Manchester, SK12).
- Posted by Mark McIntyre on March 14th, 2007
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:53:45 GMT, in uk.telecom.broadband , Frazer
Jolly Goodfellow <no-spam@hotmail.com> wrote:
Server names haven't changed, AFAIK.
--
Mark McIntyre
- Posted by Alex Brown on March 14th, 2007
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:02:43 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote:
They haven't - might be worth refreshing the newsgroup lists if any
issues.
Alex
--
Alex Brown
Senior Product Manager
Product Management, Virgin Media
- Posted by Frazer Jolly Goodfellow on March 14th, 2007
Alex Brown <alex_brown@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
news:8odev2tmg5hfrqc5hpsfb6ubbehc1b56p8@4ax.com:
the newsgroups list from the ntlworld server and hence found the VM
groups.
In trying to sort it I was misled by this Google hit:
http://www.virginmedia.com/toolsservices/newsgroups/
.... which appears now to be a case of premature e-publication :-)
