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"Gregory Hall" <greghall@home.fake> wrote in message 
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> <noway@jose.com> wrote in message 
> news:ioh4l458rqi4nbhsbcch0b7r8lkhvg0hk7@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:12:52 -1000, Habib <Habib@...> wrote:
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>>>Seeing the same problem in most of the video groups.
>>>Other servers do not seem to be having the same problem.
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>> I just checked the Altopia status page on the web and according to it
>> all systems are go and running fine as of today.  Surely there aren't
>> that many uploaders having problems with their newsgroup providers.
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> Altopia stands head and shoulders above all the others.
>
> Generally you will find the fault lies with the "free newsservers." Taken 
> as a whole they are little more than amateur attempts to provide 
> professional service and they are lacking more often than not. If you want 
> to download binaries you have to pay or else you spend the majority of 
> your time frustrated because of incompletes. Even some of the lower tier 
> pay servers (octanews comes to mind of late) seem to have chronic problems 
> with incompletes as evidenced by posts to their support group.
>
> It's unfortunate that inept, amateur free NSPs have gotten numerous enough 
> that they now seem to be giving ALL NSPs a bad name. The good folks at 
> NANA and NANU need to look into this problem because if there's a case of 
> REAL abuse of the network it's these amateur NSPs wreaking havoc with the 
> network while they pretend to be something that actually does the job.
>
> -- 
> Gregory Hall
>


AIOE was certainly the cause of a lot of this with their stupid useless 
filters which backfired and loused up everything. Why would they even 
consider filtering when usenet is supposed to be an open forum?