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From: Hunter on 28 Nov 2009 01:17
Rob wrote:
> Hunter wrote:
>> Hmmmm, looks like they're using Giganews, that definitely wont be a
>> candidate....
>>
>>
>> Hunter wrote:
>>> Arrrggghhh, iinet has recently moved its' users onto the westnet news
>>> server, and it's dropping posts left/right/centre, including my own
>>> which somehow seem to propogate through it to receive replies but in
>>> many cases are not being held on it.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a good news service that ain't super expensive and is
>>> decently speedy when pulling headers down to Oz?
>
>
> http://www.eternal-september.org/
>
> seems OK, free you have to signup. Worth a try.
>
> just had my ISP drop the news server - which was free - now have to
> count the external downloads -
>
> there is also - nntp.aioe.org been down a bit of late.
>
> r


I'll give the one that goes down a bit a miss, but eternal september
looks worth a bash, might register and check it out. Cheers dude.
From: Hunter on 28 Nov 2009 03:26
Hunter wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>> Hunter wrote:
>>> Hmmmm, looks like they're using Giganews, that definitely wont be a
>>> candidate....
>>>
>>>
>>> Hunter wrote:
>>>> Arrrggghhh, iinet has recently moved its' users onto the westnet
>>>> news server, and it's dropping posts left/right/centre, including my
>>>> own which somehow seem to propogate through it to receive replies
>>>> but in many cases are not being held on it.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know of a good news service that ain't super expensive and is
>>>> decently speedy when pulling headers down to Oz?
>>
>>
>> http://www.eternal-september.org/
>>
>> seems OK, free you have to signup. Worth a try.
>>
>> just had my ISP drop the news server - which was free - now have to
>> count the external downloads -
>>
>> there is also - nntp.aioe.org been down a bit of late.
>>
>> r
>
>
> I'll give the one that goes down a bit a miss, but eternal september
> looks worth a bash, might register and check it out. Cheers dude.


Eternal September seems pretty damn good so far, have found a couple of
the missing replies and everything seems lightning quick in comparison
to giganews. Can't be bothered digging through for all of the stuff that
went missing but don't expect I should lose anything else. Many thanks
for the pointer dude.
From: Sandgroper on 28 Nov 2009 04:30

"Hunter" <hunter01(a)iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:ftidnYlS9KTjMY3WnZ2dnUVZ_ghi4p2d(a)westnet.com.au...
> Arrrggghhh, iinet has recently moved its' users onto the westnet news
> server, and it's dropping posts left/right/centre, including my own which
> somehow seem to propogate through it to receive replies but in many cases
> are not being held on it.
>
> Anyone know of a good news service that ain't super expensive and is
> decently speedy when pulling headers down to Oz?

Westnet/iiNet uses giganews , if you are having problems , then the best way
to fix it is by rebuilding the list of Ngs ( re-download a new list ) and
then deleting all your Ngs and then re-subscribing to your Ngs again .
You may have an Ng article ID clash between giganews and what you have on
your system which causes the symptoms that you have described.

You will also need to set your download limit to 500 articles otherwise you
will get articles dating back to 2003.

Also make sure you have set the right timezone for your system , it looks
like you have it currently set to daylight savings time.

I am with iiNet and I have not having any problem with giganews in the last
week , there were problems with giganews during the initial changeover from
iiNet to giganews , but those problems have been fixed and there is quite a
few people in iinet.general that keeps tabs on the news server's performance
and if there is a problem , then they make sure that it gets fixed.


--

Sandgroper
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It is the only place that has Pizza and Beer !




From: Hunter on 28 Nov 2009 03:31
Andy wrote:
> Hunter wrote:
>
>> Arrrggghhh, iinet has recently moved its' users onto the westnet news
>> server,
>
> Er, no it hasn't. iinet moved to giganews 30 September this year.


Yeah, I was just going by the email they sent out, noticed the giganews
part in the header after I'd made that post, so obviously the "Westnet
server" is just a redirection to the giganews nntp nodes.


> Yes, it's farking slow by comparison with the old news.iinet.net.au, but
> retention/propogation is reasonably good. You might want to reset your
> article counts if you're still experiencing issues.


Did so straight off the bat, still kept getting problems so completely
wiped all record of the news-server from my news client including the
cached files and so on, problems kept occuring. Lived with it but got
the shits when I'd queued a heap of posts, shot them all off and only
half showed up. Seems most got through but for some reason seemed to be
passed straight onto other servers but not retained on giganews itself,
then started spotting numerous responses to responses but not the
responses themselves so gave up on Giganews. The retention period is
great, but kind of pointless when it loses so many posts.


>> Anyone know of a good news service that ain't super expensive and is
>> decently speedy when pulling headers down to Oz?
>
> I became so frustrated with the (lack of) performance that I set up my
> own small news 'server' using Leafnode.


Started writing my own news reader back in the late 90's because there
was a lot of functionality I wanted that didn't exist in the then
Netscape combined browser/nntp client/mail client I was using, but alas
work started encroaching way too much into my free time so that project
was never completed, and these days I'd be hard pressed to get as far as
setting up an nntp node even with out-of-the-box software, too much
hassle! :)

From: Rob on 28 Nov 2009 05:02
Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote:

>
> If you want to give iiNet the flick, churn to Internode. They give you
> Astraweb as part of the package. Its OK if you can put up with their 3
> crosspost limit. Its a very fast link. At least 5,000 headers in a few
> seconds.
>

How do you manage with only 3 crossposts?
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