test to see if group is back online

[Lyndell Thompson]

Anyone here. Earthlink has other groups working but this one has had no activity for weeks. Thanks Lyndell P.S. If anyone gets this ping me.

[bob kater]

ping

[Lyndell Thompson]

Thanks Bob. I had to do a total reset here and everything is back up. Have not got anything since 3/29/08. It will take a while to catch up. :-) Lyndell

[mac davis]

Nope, we're not here... must be your imagination?

mac

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[Edward Hennessey]

LT:

You're going to like this. Several of my newsgroups coming through Earthlink stopped their feeds late last month. Before that, I had a doubling of some recent posts in certain ngs. After talking to India several times, where the focus was on selling me "tune-up software irrelevant to the problem, I protested both to the sales arm of the company and made a call to corporate HQ, where the girl kept asking about "Newsnet" and "use groups".

Not one single admission from them that they were the problem. What an abysmal bungle.

Regards,

Edward Hennessey

[Lyndell Thompson]

Glad to hear that it wasn't just me. Overall I am pleased with earthlink but once or twice a year I will go thru this type of thing. This is the first time I had to reset all NG (delete) to get them all up again. Thanks for sharing your experience as well. Lyndell

[Dave Balderstone]

it looks like earthlink gets they're feed from Giganews. THAT's the problem.

Giganews bought Supernews and proceed to F* everything that was good about Supernews.

I canceled my account, moved to individual.net and haven't looked back.

[Lyndell Thompson]

I may have to do the same. Thanks for the tip. Lyndell

"Dave Balderstone"

[mac davis]

I'm very happy with APN... only $3 a month and works well..

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