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 In article <825303652_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>
  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) said:-

> In article <825265740_OASIS_@zing.demon.co.uk>
>  Brian@zing.demon.co.uk  said:-
>
>> In article <825187710_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>
>>  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) said:-
>>
>>>
>>>Hi Mr Demon,
>>>
>>>Why is News intermittently rejecting articles. It happened and went 
>>>away at the weekend, now it's happening again - though obviously not 
>>>when this gets received of course!
>>>
>>>(intermittent - as in, rejects everything consistently until it decides 
>>>to accept everything again)
>>>
>>>
>>>__
>>>
>>>Guy Harrison
>>>
>>>guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>Was able to post nothing because of the 436 message between 6am and 11pm
>>Friday. Eventually after lots of wasted phone calls assumed it wasn't my
>>set up, but Demon at fault. My time and telephone bill could have been
>>saved by Demon putting an appropriate message on the MOTD or status@gate. I
>>realise that Demon tend to be reluctant to do this as they seem to feel
>>that posting information about problems put off potential customers - but I
>>doubt they are put off nearly as much as they are by word of mouth and news
>>postings from existing customers pissed off about being left in the dark
>>wasting time and money.
>
>[snip]
>
>From the limited enquires I have made it would appear that some people 
>were not having a problem when I was. Perhaps this means that the 
>problem was regional somehow?

Well I had the same trouble at the same time - it was the frustration of 
failing to get articles posted which led to me switching off at precisely 
the wrong moment and erasing Oasis and accompanying files :-( 

Like many others I'd spent all evening trying to get postings up - I had 
about half a dozen pearls of wisdom which are now lost to the world.


>
>Like you say, it would be nice for some response from demon. If I had 
>been making software changes then obviously I would have been put to a 
>lot of pointless trouble.
>

Absolutely. They really do need to put this up in status@gate at the very 
least, even if they don't greet you with the necessary information.

Andrew


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