News Individual.Net Problems

Nor have I. Nor is the web site working. Ha - it is now, and shows this message:

"Important Notice: News server maintenance ongoing NNTP access currently might be limited or impossible. Please try again later."

Great. Not.

(Google groups seems like the obvious way of posting in this circumstance. One reason I don't dismiss all posts through Google.)

-- Rod

Yes same problem here. Server not responding

--=20 Regards David: NorthWest, England

Try swapping from eu to us or vice versa. It is rare both servers are down.

Alan, please explain more fully?

Yeah.I don't understand either ..it's just news.individual.net I use .

Also I forgot they had a website ..silly me .

All OK now.

Ian

Sorry wrong news server

Ah, uk.d-i-y and uk.media.tv.misc are now NIN support groups? No? Then ever considered sending an email, genius? Nah, course not. Whatever would you do that for, eh?

Note to all users of other web, email or usenet services, or in fact any service whatsoever:

Apparently random newsgroups are _the_ place to ask "does anyone else use..." whenever you have a problem with a service. Yep, it's 2009; the year of the ignorant usenet Tard. Anything goes. Please remember to crosspost to attain the maximum ignorance factor.

Whatever you do, do not contact the sevice directly, even though they are best placed to answer, do not visit their website, even though that is the most likely place they will annouce and explain a problem and, most importantly, do not show any patience whatsoever, waiting for a problem to be resolved.

Usenet is clearly a matter of life and death, so do not hestitate to spam though another Usenet gateway because you haven't been able to access through your usual provider (that you spent about 75 pence a month on) for a few hours.

That is all.

I'm getting lots of 'Message is no longer available on the server' reports on my NIN newsgroups; presumably related. . .

I'm getting lots of messages about what's on (or not on) another server I don't give a rat's ass about and that most people in this newsgroup (umtm) don't use. Presumably related to NINers being the new AOLers.

Were you dumped this evening, or something?

Vaidd,

The server was down for servicing earlier today - as blasted from the

Cash

Vaidd,

Apologies - I though that you were the OP until I re-read the post (after sending mine [as usual]) - that's the problem with globally kill-filing all google and gmail accounts to cut down on the spam.

Cash

I moved to motzarella.org when I got pissed around over them failing to take payment from 3 different credit cards.

The service is just as good, and completely free.

Motzarellea urns me down, reporting that it's `too busy' about once in four. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Yup. Me too.

Another Dave

I won't pay for usenet out of principle frankly , not even a few pounds. I use both Motzarella and AIOE - Motzarella often tiems out under heavy load and AIOE occasionally only has some of the messages in a thread - not showing others at all.

Tell me about it. It took months for Click&Buy to accomplish the simple task of updating the expiry date of my MasterCard (without changing the other details) OR deleting the old record and creating a new one, OR doing any of the other things one might logically think of doing in that situation. Their website made it literally logically impossible to extricate oneself from the problem, and their customer service people repeatedly failed to understand or respond to my simple explanations of what the problem was. How it eventually got sorted out, I forget, and I never even completely knew, because I was so fed up with it that I never even read their final e-mail to me on the subject. Somehow my credit card did in the end get debited, because someone at their end must in the end have updated the details manually. It wasn't as bad as dealing with the Inland Revenue , but it made about as little sense.

If the credit card nonsense happens again, I'll look into that - thanks for the tip! Meanwhile, I'm as happy as ever with Nine Inch Nails ... sorry, News.Individual.NET ... themselves, just not their payment system. (The old payment system worked fine.)

The notice is still up there at their website:

"Important Notice: News server maintenance ongoing NNTP access currently might be limited or impossible. Please try again later."

No access problems for me since yesterday, though.

What principle is that? I'm a Usenet junkie myself, and also I'm always short of money, but it has never bothered me to pay