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Re: Demon's Sad Newsserver

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From: Gary Noack
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:00
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 In article <199603170115.AA01801@moroder.demon.co.uk>
  Stephen Mulrine <robotron@moroder.demon.co.uk> said:-

>Yet somehow you managed to post this article.  Miraculous.

Helpful comment, NOT.

>I didn't know you were on the board.  If everything they do is a matter of
>commercial judgement, explain the existence of pubnews.

So it does exist then ;-)
Demon say that it's unsupported (no change there).
>It works for me.  But then, my newsreader automatically retries if it can't
>get a connection to the server.  The longest I've had to wait recently is
>about 8 minutes.
>

Eight minutes is a long time, you can't seriously be happy with that.

>Well, go and find out, and give us all peace.

Nobody has to read this thread if they don't want to and who exactly is 'us
all'.

>
>Did I mention telephone support?  No, I didn't.  With an obscure machine,

Obscure?

>you're not going to have much luck with any service provider.  But what
>you have got with Demon is an established base of experts using the same
>service.  I don't recall seeing too many articles from Pipex users on, say,
>comp.sys.atari.st.

'established base of experts' you're being ironic now, aren't you?

>You obviously can't remember just how bad it used to be.  (:

Yeah I do, Imagine what would happen if instead of apologising for a late train
Brit. Rail would just state that it's better than the old days, like before
horses were invented or something. BTW Stephen you're head seems to on upside
down :)

So when are Demon gonna pipe in and say something? we're waiting.

Demon, from worse to bad to worse again, Gaz.
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From: gary@imco.demon.co.uk (Gary Noack)
Subject: Re: Demon's Sad Newsserver
Date: 1996/03/18
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