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In article <36amhFAwgG8yEw1Z@reggie.demon.co.uk>,
David Perrin <david@reggie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Yeah, I'm still reading threads in UK.Politics that say that Margaret
>Thatcher is Prime Minister.

You mean she's not?

Oh hell... I lost the bet, then...


-- 
Peter

On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:09:57 GMT, damien@jetman.nojunkmail.demon.co.uk
(Damien Burke) wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:17:37 GMT, "Steve Bernard"
><stevebernard@tradingx.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Posted at 16.08 and downloaded at 18.06.
>>It's very pleasant being current again.
>
>Two hours ain't current. 30 seconds is current, which is what the pitifully poor
>news server at my uni used to manage. A few minutes would be nice...

Umm, whats wrong with having a one hour turnaround between posting and
retreiving? I only download news once a day so that hour isn't going
to be missed.

Nick Humphries, nickh@the-den.demon.co.uk, at your service
        If the Truth is Out There, what's In Here?

damien@jetman.nojunkmail.demon.co.uk (Damien Burke)  the great and
wise eloquently explained to all :

>Two hours ain't current. 30 seconds is current, which is what the pitifully poor
>news server at my uni used to manage. A few minutes would be nice...

Prestel's (who use theplanet) newserver lets me click on post and when
I immediately download messages I get the one's I've just posted back.


Regards, Steve
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and little by little they become its visible soul

On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:17:37 GMT, "Steve Bernard"
<stevebernard@tradingx.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Posted at 16.08 and downloaded at 18.06.
>It's very pleasant being current again.

Two hours ain't current. 30 seconds is current, which is what the pitifully poor
news server at my uni used to manage. A few minutes would be nice...

>Delighted that delays on Demon newservers have ended. 

They haven't though.
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In article <01bc0e10$d9b4c660$998c989e@tradingx.demon.co.uk>, Steve
Bernard <stevebernard@tradingx.demon.co.uk> writes
>Posted at 16.08 and downloaded at 18.06.
>It's very pleasant being current again.
>

Yeah, I'm still reading threads in UK.Politics that say that Margaret
Thatcher is Prime Minister.


-- 
Kermit          

        Something witty and interesting
        just like all the other 
        signatures you see around here

On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:44:41 GMT, jsw@isise.rl.ac.uk (John Wright) wrote:

>The news server here manages a few seconds - probably less than 5, but
>then it serves about 1000 people at the most, not the 80-odd thousand
>customers demon have.

When I said pitifully poor, I meant a machine that ran lots of other stuff as
well as news software, regularly had a full spool so you couldn't post to it,
lost its article database every few weeks... basically it was a mess. And it
still managed fairly decently when it was behaving.

Of course, as you say, it had nowhere near the load. But it had nowhere near the
capacity, so may have been running even more flat-out than Demon's one.
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:09:57 GMT, damien@jetman.nojunkmail.demon.co.uk (Damien
Burke) wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:17:37 GMT, "Steve Bernard"
><stevebernard@tradingx.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Delighted that delays on Demon newservers have ended. 
>
>They haven't though.

Though 22 minutes ain't bad.
--
Damien Burke (remove nojunkmail part of my address to reply)
Opinions are mine alone and do not represent RNSETT.

David Perrin (david@reggie.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: >Posted at 16.08 and downloaded at 18.06.
: >It's very pleasant being current again.
: >
: Yeah, I'm still reading threads in UK.Politics that say that Margaret
: Thatcher is Prime Minister.
: 

When did that happen?

I'm sure I voted for Pitt the Younger last time round.

Guy

On Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:03:19 +0000, paul@white-star.com (Paul Copsey) wrote:

>That sounds suspiciously like the one at B'ham Uni, who didn't have

Boing! Give that man ten points and a medal.
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:06:00 GMT, nick@emailme.at.address.below (Nick Humphries)
wrote:

>Umm, whats wrong with having a one hour turnaround between posting and
>retreiving? I only download news once a day so that hour isn't going
>to be missed.

Because, dammit, I can't be bothered using IRC :)
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In article <AF16E2E4966812291B@cara.demon.co.uk>, Peter Ceresole
<peter@cara.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <36amhFAwgG8yEw1Z@reggie.demon.co.uk>,
>David Perrin <david@reggie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Yeah, I'm still reading threads in UK.Politics that say that Margaret
>>Thatcher is Prime Minister.
>
>You mean she's not?
>
>Oh hell... I lost the bet, then...
>
>

You didn't do a double on whether women will get the vote did you?

-- 
Kermit          

        Something witty and interesting
        just like all the other 
        signatures you see around here

In message <32f0fe0b.262367773@news.prestel.co.uk>, Stephen Milner <dustbin@elrick.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
>damien@jetman.nojunkmail.demon.co.uk (Damien Burke)  the great and
>wise eloquently explained to all :

>>Two hours ain't current. 30 seconds is current, which is what the pitifully poor
>>news server at my uni used to manage. A few minutes would be nice...

>Prestel's (who use theplanet) newserver lets me click on post and when
>I immediately download messages I get the one's I've just posted back.

What is it with this "I want to get my messages back" thing anyway?  The
current arrangements here mean I get my postings to appear back in the
group *before* they even get sent to Demon.

Dan

-- 
Dan Glover

In article <E3u6iEAhTb8yEwCK@reggie.demon.co.uk>,
David Perrin <david@reggie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>Oh hell... I lost the bet, then...
>>
>>
>
>You didn't do a double on whether women will get the vote did you?

No- I'm okay. My long runner was that man wouldn't land on the moon by
2000. I reckon I'm safe there.

-- 
Peter

In article <36amhFAwgG8yEw1Z@reggie.demon.co.uk>,
David Perrin  <david@reggie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <01bc0e10$d9b4c660$998c989e@tradingx.demon.co.uk>, Steve
>Bernard <stevebernard@tradingx.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Posted at 16.08 and downloaded at 18.06.
>>It's very pleasant being current again.
>>
>
>Yeah, I'm still reading threads in UK.Politics that say that Margaret
>Thatcher is Prime Minister.

That's not delay: that's flashback.

On 30 Jan 1997 13:17:21, Damien Burke <damien@jetman.nojunkmail.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> When I said pitifully poor, I meant a machine that ran lots of other stuff as
> well as news software, regularly had a full spool so you couldn't post to it,
> lost its article database every few weeks... basically it was a mess. And it
> still managed fairly decently when it was behaving.

That sounds suspiciously like the one at B'ham Uni, who didn't have
anyone who knew how to get the spool expiring properly and hence it
sat, constipated on a pile of old articles, until apparently a big
batch hit it and it woke up.  This led to posters at B'hams peers
firing binaries at it to wake it up ;-)

Paul

dan@dangl.demon.co.uk (Dan Glover)  the great and wise eloquently
explained to all :

>In message <32f0fe0b.262367773@news.prestel.co.uk>, Stephen Milner <dustbin@elrick.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
>>damien@jetman.nojunkmail.demon.co.uk (Damien Burke)  the great and
>>wise eloquently explained to all :
>
>>>Two hours ain't current. 30 seconds is current, which is what the pitifully poor
>>>news server at my uni used to manage. A few minutes would be nice...
>
>>Prestel's (who use theplanet) newserver lets me click on post and when
>>I immediately download messages I get the one's I've just posted back.
>
>What is it with this "I want to get my messages back" thing anyway?  The
>current arrangements here mean I get my postings to appear back in the
>group *before* they even get sent to Demon.

I could set things up to post straigt away, but I like them to go
through the server as sort of a feedback check on:

1) My software isn't Broken [tm]
2) The news server isn't Broken [tm]
3) My articles make sense within the framework of other posts to the
group at that time
4) I'm not Broken [tm]

Actually, forget #3



Regards, Steve
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I love cats because I enjoy my home;
and little by little they become its visible soul