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In article <821708682_OASIS_@spirit.demon.co.uk>
           greeny@spirit.demon.co.uk "David Greenhough" writes:

> Well, as I have already said there's something amiss here somewhere.
>  
> Has anyone a FAQ relating to nntp?

Try RFC 977 -- for the hard of thinking, that's
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/doc/rfc/rfc0977.txt (I think).

> Is there any news re news?
> 
> Although I dont seem to be having log-on problems, once in, I can do b***er all!> For the last week things have become impossible with demons news servers busy
> continually. All these internet ready PCs this Xmas seem to have pushed Demon
> beyond critical mass and it's suffering terminal meltdown of its servers.
> 
> First news was hard to access, then it seemed to slow to a crawl, then Server
> Busy (response was 400) then one day last week I started to get no "server busy"> message just a new response code (response was -1) each and every time I logged
> on. Today (Sunday) even the response codes have gone! I'm getting the normal
> "connected to server" and then one or two blank lines before dropping the
> server!                                   ^^^^^
> 
> What the **** is going on here? Have I done something Demon don't like?
> A FAQ re news (or directions to it) might be nice.

I doubt this is due to internet-ready PCs. Perhaps due to the number
of Turnpike packages sold. Turnpike kicks the news server automatically
unitl it gets a connection.

> Response codes are not as good as informative messages.(ie Server Busy)
> but would be better than nothing at all (esp if I had a clue what they meant)

See RFC 977 (Hope I got the number right, but I just got in from
the pub).

> Everything else seems to keep going slow but OK in this post Xmas rush.
> For me its just news thats screwed. Demons only hope seems to be the newbies
> ardour may be cooled with the onset of the post Xmas phone bills!

News is a PITA for everyone. (Fingers crossed) this will improve soon.

> Living in hope,
>                 David Greenhough.

Good luck!

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Simon Oke -- simon@loony.demon.co.uk
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