🚀 go-pugleaf

{Original sent Sat, 27 Sep 97 13:52:43, Reposted due to ISP troubles}

In article: <HAv2BDAq8ML0Ewxx@globalnet.co.uk>
  keith stein <keith@globalnet.co.uk> writes:
>
>First an appology to anyone whose post i have ignored.  The blame for
>this probably lies with my new service provider 'GLOBAL'.
>I recently changed from DEMON because their service was INCREDIBLE SLOW,
>and apart from the inconveinience, the cost was excessive. (N.B.we do
>not get free local calls in the UK).  News collection from GLOBAL is
>indeed very much faster than from Demon, but sadly I now receive only
>about half the news items posted.  I have complained to Global about
>this, but they were unable to suggest any cause or remedy. Does anyone
>else have similar problems? Is there any solution, other than changing
>my provider yet again ?

Crossposted and **note followups** where this will be on topic.

The cause is probably that they have limited peering arrangements with 
other servers. Their problem is probably the cost of good feeds. Other 
than going to major ISP's, you are unlikely to find much improvement 
elsewhere.

Demon's feed is fast but at the beginning of the year developed the habit 
of ocassionally stopping dead after a few dozen messages. Stopping then 
immediately restarting the process makes it fly again.

During the last two weeks or so, there has been another problem in that 
some messages on the server seem to be invisible to some types of software 
possibly because the server doesn't acknowledge the article number.

If anyone in s.p.r thinks I have ignored a post from them, please email.
-- 
George Dishman
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The arrow of time points in many directions.
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