EARTHLINK NEWSGROUPS

[Bob Burns]

I haven't been able to see any Earthlink Newsgroups for several days.
I've tried news.west.earthlink.net as well as the news.east server. Is
it me, and if so what can I do, or is it Earthlink?

Can anyone suggest a different usenet server? This mozilla server and
the Microsoft server work fine.

TIA!
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"Every day is Saturday when you're retired."

Bob Burns
Mill Hall PA
(email is a spamtrap)

[Nir]

Bob Burns wrote:
> I haven't been able to see any Earthlink Newsgroups for several days.
> I've tried news.west.earthlink.net as well as the news.east server. Is
> it me, and if so what can I do, or is it Earthlink?
>
> Can anyone suggest a different usenet server? This mozilla server and
> the Microsoft server work fine.
>
> TIA!

exactly what type of problem you are facing while trying to accessing
earthlink NG?

[Edward Diener]

Bob Burns wrote:
> I haven't been able to see any Earthlink Newsgroups for several days.
> I've tried news.west.earthlink.net as well as the news.east server. Is
> it me, and if so what can I do, or is it Earthlink?

It is Earthlink. The servers have not been feeding anything new to the
newsgroups for over a week.

[Andrew DeFaria]

And what, pray tell, does Earthlink support say about it?

-- 

Andrew DeFaria
2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.

[G. R. Woodring]

> Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>

> 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.

From Earthlink support (Minutes ago, 12/16/2006)
<http://netstatus.earthlink.net/netstatus/ViewID.aspx?ID=67049>

<quote>
Last Updated on: 12/13/2006 11:18:22

Customers utilizing Earthlink's DSL and Home phone service may experience
difficulties using Earthlink's News Groups. Our engineers are aware of the issue
and are working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue.
</quote>

Earthlink does not seem to assign much priority to news problems :-(

--
G. R. Woodring

[Ron Lopshire]

G. R. Woodring wrote:

> On 12/16/2006 10:59 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Edward Diener wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Burns wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't been able to see any Earthlink Newsgroups for several
>>>> days. I've tried news.west.earthlink.net as well as the news.east
>>>> server. Is it me, and if so what can I do, or is it Earthlink?
>>>
>>> It is Earthlink. The servers have not been feeding anything new to
>>> the newsgroups for over a week.
>>
>> And what, pray tell, does Earthlink support say about it?
>

> From Earthlink support (Minutes ago, 12/16/2006)
> <http://netstatus.earthlink.net/netstatus/ViewID.aspx?ID=67049>
>
> <quote>
> Last Updated on: 12/13/2006 11:18:22
>
> Customers utilizing Earthlink's DSL and Home phone service may
> experience difficulties using Earthlink's News Groups. Our engineers are
> aware of the issue and are working as quickly as possible to resolve the
> issue.
> </quote>
>
> Earthlink does not seem to assign much priority to news problems :-(

Back up this morning (Eastern US), after being down for almost exactly
(sorry about the oxymoron) one week.

Nice business model, jerks.

Ron :)

[Andrew DeFaria]

So then you have your answer.

Earthlink does not seem to assign much priority to news problems :-(

Then personally I wouldn't assign too much of my budget to them! Get another ISP!

-- 

Andrew DeFaria
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.

[The Real Bev]

Edward Diener wrote:

This is interesting. I had earthlink news several years ago, and even
then people were griping in the earthlink newsgroup about how awful the
usenet servers were -- retention, uptime, etc. A former earthlink
sysadmin said that since so few people actually used usenet and it cost
so much to run that fixing stuff was a low priority. Guess nothing has
changed.

--
Cheers, Bev (Happy Linux User #85683, Slackware 11.0)
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"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the
little children jump up and down and run around yelling and
screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks." --Emo

[Alex K.]

The Real Bev wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>
>> Bob Burns wrote:
>>> I haven't been able to see any Earthlink Newsgroups for several days.
>>> I've tried news.west.earthlink.net as well as the news.east server. Is
>>> it me, and if so what can I do, or is it Earthlink?
>> It is Earthlink. The servers have not been feeding anything new to the
>> newsgroups for over a week.
>
> This is interesting. I had earthlink news several years ago, and even
> then people were griping in the earthlink newsgroup about how awful the
> usenet servers were -- retention, uptime, etc. A former earthlink
> sysadmin said that since so few people actually used usenet and it cost
> so much to run that fixing stuff was a low priority. Guess nothing has
> changed.

This seems to be a common occurrence with ISPs that host their own news
servers.

While I have not used Earthlink myself, the two other ISPs I've had
recent experience with, both wound up outsourcing to Giganews, using the
justification that it was too expensive to maintain the service themselves.

--
Alex K.

[The Real Bev]

Alex K. wrote:

Charter uses Highwinds. If you email HW they may or may not respond
with a reasonable suggestion/explanation, but the problems get fixed
within a reasonable time. Way better than earthlink.

--
Cheers, Bev (Happy Linux User #85683, Slackware 11.0)

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Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't.

[Jim]

Bob Burns wrote:
> I haven't been able to see any Earthlink Newsgroups for several days.
> I've tried news.west.earthlink.net as well as the news.east server.
> Is it me, and if so what can I do, or is it Earthlink?
>
> Can anyone suggest a different usenet server? This mozilla server and
> the Microsoft server work fine.
>
> TIA!

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