- PlusNet News service problems.
- Posted by Derrick Fawsitt on July 15th, 2004
I like other customers of PlusNet have been going through and putting up
with the problems of the news service. Finally I changed back to the
German (Berlin) service, (of which I had already been a subscriber), and
apart from not getting the PlusNet Newsgroups I have been enjoying a
"lightening" service. Assuming the PlusNet service is or will be back to
its proper performance, what advantages would I gain by going back. I
don't miss the PlusNet newsgroups as I can always log on here to get the
service news so what would I miss by staying with the German service. I
have posted this question to the PlusNet forum but would also like to
get the views of posters to this newsgroup.
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- Posted by Phil Chung on July 15th, 2004
Derrick Fawsitt <46@fitzwilliamonline.com> wrote in
news:y5vGUABJ3j9AFwG$@fitzwilliamonline.com:
You probably won't miss anything if you're not a heavy user of usenet.
I'm using a Polish server at the moment. At home, I have my Linux file
server aggregating three feeds (PlusNet, Gazeta.pl and ClaraNews) into
one so missing posts on one server is retrieved on another server.
I guess heavy users of binary groups would have a 3rd party usenet
service anyway.
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- Posted by Ian Stirling on July 15th, 2004
Phil Chung <pylchungTEETH@hotmail.com> wrote:
Actually, at the moment, the plusnet newsserver has a comparable completion
rate to giganews, if not the same retention.
- Posted by Phil Chung on July 15th, 2004
Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:40f66080$0$39738$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net:
I'm not a binary newsgroup user so wouldn't know about that. I have
experienced missing posts on some of the text groups though hence the
aggragating news proxy I've set up at home.
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- Posted by Ian Stirling on July 15th, 2004
Phil Chung <pylchungTEETH@hotmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I've not seen this, apart from occasional lack of appearance
locally of posts to morderated groups.
- Posted by PlusNet Support Team on July 15th, 2004
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:18:17 +0100, Derrick Fawsitt
<46@fitzwilliamonline.com> wrote:
Hi Derrick,
We recently launched our new usenet platform (just last week) and so far
feedback has been very good. Please feel free to try it out and let us
know what you think.
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- Posted by Phil Chung on July 15th, 2004
Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in news:40f68362$0$92635
$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net:
It's the odd few posts that are are posted through news.gazeta.pl or
news.wanadoo.co.uk/news.freeserve.co.uk that don't arrive - they arrive on
news.clara.net fine though. I was asked to contact PlusNet CS with
message IDs of some of the missing posts, but just got the reply that
completion is not garuanteed even for text groups.
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- Posted by Peter Johnson on July 15th, 2004
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:43:37 +0100, PlusNet Support Team
<dtomlinson@plus.net> wrote:
As a PN user I'll support that. It's now red hot, much faster than
I've experienced with either Giganews or Tera.
- Posted by Derrick Fawsitt on July 15th, 2004
In message <opsa6lqzf76ihwnk@usenet.plus.net>, PlusNet Support Team
<dtomlinson@plus.net> writes
Dave.
You know I was so happy with news.individual.net, (the new name for the
Berlin news server), that I was simply going to remain with it but your
post was so warm and friendly that I will indeed do so. However, you
might like to match it with the Berlin server in performance so it would
be interesting to hear from anyone who is using PN's and the Berlin one
right now to see how they compare. For my part I find the German one
like lightening and was reluctant to leave it now. You really cannot
blame me after what we all went through while you were doing the work
you had to do in PlusNet. However, as I said above, I will indeed go
back to try it. Perhaps if you have time you might make sure I have the
correct configuration as at this stage I am not sure whether its "to
beta or not to beta", that is the question, (with apologies to Bill
Shakespeare).
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- Posted by Old Codger on July 15th, 2004
"Derrick Fawsitt" <46@fitzwilliamonline.com> wrote in message
news:CluKDIBMFv9AFwBY@fitzwilliamonline.com
Leave out the beta, (usenet.plus.net is all you need).
I have used the German server for years, started when it was cis.dfn.de.
Text groups on the Plusnet server, when it was in good health, were always
at least as good and often got posts marginally before the German server.
This situation has returned with the completion of the Plusnet server work
and the new server put on line.
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e-mail use reply to field
What matters in politics is not what happens, but what you can make people
believe has happened. [Janet Daley 27/8/2003]
- Posted by Derrick Fawsitt on July 16th, 2004
In message <40f6fa18$0$200$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>, Old
Codger <Oldcodger@anyoldwhere.net> writes
That's what I wanted to know and I now will try it out again, however I
must say the German server is so fast just now its a pleasure to use. I
am sure you are right about the PlusNet server but I will of course be
very disappointed if I find it giving anything like the problems I have
had for the past weeks, not only with news but with my email as well.
Thanks again for your trouble and help, much appreciated.
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Derrick Fawsitt
- Posted by Old Codger on July 16th, 2004
"Derrick Fawsitt" <46@fitzwilliamonline.com> wrote in message
news:YgGcCKAtP69AFwTb@fitzwilliamonline.com
Haven't had any e-mail probs for some time and the Plusnet news server has
been as described above since the Beta went live as the on line server.
No probs.
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e-mail use reply to field
What matters in politics is not what happens, but what you can make people
believe has happened. [Janet Daley 27/8/2003]
- Posted by Steven Campbell on July 17th, 2004
"Derrick Fawsitt" <46@fitzwilliamonline.com> wrote in message
news:YgGcCKAtP69AFwTb@fitzwilliamonline.com...
Hi Derrick,
I have been running the German and Plusnet servers side by side mainly
because of PlusNets problems. Since Plusnet got their act together, I can
honestly say they are now ahead.
Steven.
- Posted by Derrick Fawsitt on July 19th, 2004
In message <40f8eae0$0$233$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>, Steven
Campbell <newsgroup@pTHREEasa.co.uk> writes
Steven, thank you for that but since I was previously advised above,
reluctantly I went back to PN's web mail. To say there is no comparison
is an understatement but it was able to dish out my reward.
Regards,
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Derrick Fawsitt
