Newsgroup problem

"Roger" wrote

Probably Charter. Yup. Just read the sig. They "upgraded" a couple
weeks back. The whole thing crashed (think it was Friday)

My last post I received was 3:31 PM EST Friday.

and must
have come back up some time this morning. It wasn't up at 4:00 AM.
Seems to be back up here at least for the time being.

Yep. Back up here, too. The amazing thing was that all the binaries groups
were still up. Also, the tecs I called at Charter did not even know that
there was anything wrong. They gave me an E-mail address for their news
service, but I have not heard back from them. Probably won't. They must
have been swamped from complaints.

Now I have a choice. My system thinks it's up-to-date even though it
is missing the last 3 days worth of posts.

I'm just going to forget about the missed posts. Too much hassle to sort
though them any other way. I think I'll live. :-)

They don't even carry 4 of
the primary groups I was following. (digital photography groups)

Too bad. have you called and bitched about it?


Used to be Deja-News or some such, but I think they became Google. I
think Google then dropped all but the search engine.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)

None I have tried came close to the convenience and clarity that OE
provides. I hope Charter can keep its act together.
--
Jim in NC

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:57:08 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

None I have tried came close to the convenience and clarity that OE
provides. I hope Charter can keep its act together.


Have you tried Agent? It's free. Once I took a look at it, I never
went back to OE.

Also, here is a link to a free news provider. May be helpful if
Charter keeps having problems.

HTH.
z

I just sent a b*tch letter to charter about the newsgroups. They changed
servers about a week or so ago, and now the groups are always messed up,
old messages showing as new (repeatedly), "no such article" messages, etc.

I'm using the same setting and stuff in netscape as I did with their old
servers, so its not on my end.

John

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:16:45 GMT, zatatime wrote:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:57:08 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

None I have tried came close to the convenience and clarity that OE
provides. I hope Charter can keep its act together.


Have you tried Agent? It's free. Once I took a look at it, I never
went back to OE.

I'll second that although I did not like the limitations of free agent
and bought the full version which is not expensive.


Also, here is a link to a free news provider. May be helpful if
Charter keeps having problems.


Link??

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


HTH.
z

"zatatime" wrote

Have you tried Agent? It's free. Once I took a look at it, I never
went back to OE.


I did play with Agent a little last night. Not bad, and it deserves another
look.

Also, here is a link to a free news provider. May be helpful if
Charter keeps having problems.

HTH.
z

That link is where? :-)
--
Jim in NC

Morgans, on Dec 6, 9:57 am , wrote:

" I'm just going to forget about the missed posts. Too much hassle to
sort
though them any other way. I think I'll live. :-) ":

You can read them using google, www.google.com.

However they are upgrading their user interface so that it is much
harder
than it was last week.

--

Doug C