Does demon.announce exist?

[David Webber]

I've just set up newsgroups at news.demon.co.uk on a completely new
computer.

demon.service is ok, but subscribing to demon.announce only shows messages
up to May 2008. Does it no longer exist? If not, is there a replacement?

Dave
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David Webber
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[Ian Jackson]

In message <rcn_m.3$Gj...@newsfe01.ams2>, David Webber
<da...@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> writes

>I've just set up newsgroups at news.demon.co.uk on a completely new
>computer.
>
>demon.service is ok, but subscribing to demon.announce only shows
>messages up to May 2008. Does it no longer exist? If not, is there a
>replacement?
>

Apart from two spam postings (the appearance of which is strange in a
moderated NG), the last message I ever received in demon.announce was
from Malcolm Muir, dated 06 November 2008. However, it still appears to
be an 'active' NG.
--
Ian

[Andy]

In message <rcn_m.3$Gj...@newsfe01.ams2>, David Webber

<da...@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> wrote

>I've just set up newsgroups at news.demon.co.uk on a completely new
>computer.
>
>demon.service is ok, but subscribing to demon.announce only shows
>messages up to May 2008. Does it no longer exist?

It's apparently not the policy of the current management to use it.

> If not, is there a replacement?
>

http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/networkstatus/serviceannouncements/
--
Andy Taylor [Editor, Austrian Philatelic Society].
Visit <URL:http://www.austrianphilately.com>

[John Hall]

In article <rcn_m.3$Gj...@newsfe01.ams2>,

David Webber <da...@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> writes:
>I've just set up newsgroups at news.demon.co.uk on a completely new
>computer.
>
>demon.service is ok, but subscribing to demon.announce only shows
>messages up to May 2008. Does it no longer exist? If not, is there a
>replacement?

The group exists, but I don't think that any messages have been posted
to it since Malcolm Muir left Demon. However the mailing list version
continues. You can subscribe to it via this web page:

http://www.demon.net/helpdesk/announce/

Past announcements are also listed on that page, so you can check if
you've missed any that weren't posted to the newsgroup.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

[pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk]

In article <rcn_m.3$Gj...@newsfe01.ams2>
da...@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk "David Webber" writes:

> I've just set up newsgroups at news.demon.co.uk on a completely new
> computer.
>
> demon.service is ok, but subscribing to demon.announce only shows messages
> up to May 2008. Does it no longer exist? If not, is there a replacement?
>

> Dave

Newsgroups rarely cease to exist (IME) -- they just wither away.
But in the case of d.announce (moderated) I would hazard a guess
that nobody at C&W/Thus remembers who the moderator is...

Pete
--
"We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
we have borrowed it from our descendants."

[Ian Jackson]

In message <126210...@nospam.demon.co.uk>, pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk
writes

>In article <rcn_m.3$Gj...@newsfe01.ams2>
> da...@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk "David Webber" writes:
>
>> I've just set up newsgroups at news.demon.co.uk on a completely new
>> computer.
>>
>> demon.service is ok, but subscribing to demon.announce only shows messages
>> up to May 2008. Does it no longer exist? If not, is there a replacement?
>>
>> Dave
>
>Newsgroups rarely cease to exist (IME) -- they just wither away.
>But in the case of d.announce (moderated) I would hazard a guess
>that nobody at C&W/Thus remembers who the moderator is...
>

Postings ceased quite a while before Malcolm Muir left (and I'm guessing
that he was the 'main man').
--
Ian