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From: Ron Rosenfeld on 16 May 2010 06:32
On Sat, 15 May 2010 20:46:39 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld <ronrosenfeld(a)nospam.org>
wrote:

>On Sat, 15 May 2010 18:02:25 -0500, "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>does seem to help if once you get the initial download, you perform a CATCH-UP. mine downloads NOW just as fast as the other servers data.
>
>My initial trial of this method seems promising.
>
>But why does it help?
>--ron

Unfortunately, the problem recurs. It can be made to go away by again
"catching up", but that seems like a real PITA. I sure hope this can be
figured out or it will seriously limit my participation in the Excel groups.

Thanks Dave and Barb for your thoughts. I was hoping there'd be something I
could do at my end to improve things. I have submitted "feedback" to the NNTP
group. We'll see how that goes.
--ron
From: mikeyhsd on 16 May 2010 09:06
nntp seems to scan al the messages looking for something less than 30 days old.
doing a catch-up marks all the old ones as done with so it can ignore them.

mikeyhsd(a)hotmail.com



"Ron Rosenfeld" <ronrosenfeld(a)nospam.org> wrote in message news:l2guu5pskqof5rcrcgejo8u6di0cmp7pk2(a)4ax.com...
On Sat, 15 May 2010 18:02:25 -0500, "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>does seem to help if once you get the initial download, you perform a CATCH-UP. mine downloads NOW just as fast as the other servers data.

My initial trial of this method seems promising.

But why does it help?
--ron
From: mikeyhsd on 16 May 2010 09:09
have only done the catch-up ONCE.
mine continues to be equally as fast as the other servers.

there are times when it slows down on skipping from one group to the next.
but that happens on all MS servers.


mikeyhsd(a)hotmail.com



"Ron Rosenfeld" <ronrosenfeld(a)nospam.org> wrote in message news:r9ivu5d9tuuhp8lq72def94a1dme95m2d8(a)4ax.com...
On Sat, 15 May 2010 20:46:39 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld <ronrosenfeld(a)nospam.org>
wrote:

>On Sat, 15 May 2010 18:02:25 -0500, "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>does seem to help if once you get the initial download, you perform a CATCH-UP. mine downloads NOW just as fast as the other servers data.
>
>My initial trial of this method seems promising.
>
>But why does it help?
>--ron

Unfortunately, the problem recurs. It can be made to go away by again
"catching up", but that seems like a real PITA. I sure hope this can be
figured out or it will seriously limit my participation in the Excel groups.

Thanks Dave and Barb for your thoughts. I was hoping there'd be something I
could do at my end to improve things. I have submitted "feedback" to the NNTP
group. We'll see how that goes.
--ron
From: Phoenix on 17 May 2010 13:38
On Mon, 10 May 2010 08:28:12 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:
> For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP
newsgroups, and
> not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:


> https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums


> This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on,
and it
> does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It
works
> with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.


> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel

The Microsoft forums are among the few I can sign in to and read--but
not post to--on my smartphone (Droid). I can, however, post to
Usenet from my phone (am doing so now).
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