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 In article <822230989.14282@thokk.demon.co.uk>
  malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir) said:-

>Paul Womar (Paul@pwomar.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>>  In article <822049550.14513@thokk.demon.co.uk>
>>   malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir) said:-
>
>> >You should be able to get in at the busy times by repeatedly kicking
>> >the server. Users report that 50 kicks can be needed at peak times,
>> >but it should be possible to do this in about 2 minutes.
>
>> Oh come on Malcom, I've heared you say this many times before but after the
>> name lookup problems tonght I set news to autokick every second and it took me
>> 34 minutes! I only had a very inactive telnet (IRC) session going and the worst
>> part of this? It was 00:30 when I logged on-Yeah like IN THE MORNING!   
>
>Are you really saying you kicked news over 2,000 times to get in ?
>
>This differs widely from my experience and that of the statistics we
>gather. The largest I have seen is 130, averages over the day are
>around the 10 mark. I have not yet had to try more than 30 times.

No not exactly, my software had interval set at 1. It taks about 2 seconds of HD
clanking and stuff before the 400 message is displayed (history files at about
20k) but I can assure you that it was at least 200 kicks and i would think that
it was nearer 350.   
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