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Article #2067Re: Demon's Sad Newsserver
From: Gary Noack
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112f4b,ede64a2dd35b4e02,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112f4b,public From: gary@imco.demon.co.uk (Gary Noack) Subject: Re: Demon's Sad Newsserver Date: 1996/03/18 Message-ID: <827258226_OASIS_@imco.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 143332939 x-nntp-posting-host: imco.demon.co.uk reply-to: gary@imco.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.ip.support.atari organisation: Immortal Coils