Just recently I'm finding the connection hanging there and the message queue does not go. However it still refuses to go if I terminate the email software and then bring it back up again, but it always goes if I restart the computer. My feeling is that something is hanging on to the port and only by severing all tcp/ip activity by shutting down, can one get it to restart and send the messages. It seems not to be an issue on other news servers. Brian
OT Eternal September and posting to it
Nov 23, 2019
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It amazes me that people continue to use ES when reliable providers are available at modest cost.
There writes a man who has never been short of money!
More to do with priorites, actually. If I can get Usenet for a year for less than the cost of four cups of coffee, I know what comes first.
I have NES and AIOE. Both free. Never had an occasion when both were down.
Also rather surprised that anyone considers Usenet a priority these days. Just a source of amusement.
To be fair, it has been reliable so why change? I'm using albersani now. You say modest cost, but these days we are increasingly being charged 'modest subscriptions' for lots of things, and I don't do it any more. Just have a look at the cost of subscribing to all the tv and stuff like prime etc? I guess News.individual.net is very low, but if there are free alternatives and one does not want binary groups, it seems silly to change. Brian
I don't like coffee, have you noticed it always smells better than it tastes. There are people like that around as well, you know! Brian
Well maybe me more than others because it has a simple always the same interface in software which supports it, more than can be said for web forums and stuff like that, plus they can and have shut down on a whim, leaving people with nothing, Usenet just seems to sail on.
Incidentally re your tag line, in parts of the UK they are reintroducing beavers to build dams to help slow the progress of water downstream to stop flooding. Brian
That?s bullshit. I have been short of money and feel the same way now that I am no longer short of money.
Broadback used his keyboard to write :
There writes a man who has too much money!
I do. Irreplaceable at the very least.
That too.
I've been using it for many years and never had a problem with it. Then again I don't demand much of it.
That's exactly what I find! Same old bowl of porridge and slice of toast of a morning.
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