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Article #253Re: Bigpond news server dead for several days. wa.general seeing posts but not any other group
From: Kate
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:25
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:25
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On Jul 25, 3:33 pm, "Sunny" <wombatho...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > "Kate" <kate.spenc...@bigpond.com> wrote in message > > news:997a6e79-d802-45de-9809-c58a1954fa03@v35g2000prn.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 9, 3:23 am, nospample...@mo.com (nospamplease) wrote: > > > Bigpondnewsserverdead for several days. wa.general seeing posts but > > not any other group. > > > What is going on ? > > > I phoned bigpond and they didn't even know of a fault. That was a week > > ago:( > > > Hoping this post makes it through. > > Hi > > I've been trying to access Bigpondnewsserverfor three weeks without > luck. > Their technical staff appear to be totally unaware of any problem. > Have you had any luck in restoring the service? > Kate > > Make sure you have the correct name for theserver:news.bigpond.com > Don't know how you do it using "Agent" but in Outlook Express, it was > necessary to Reset eachnewsgroup. > (Bit of a pain as all the cachenewsgroups are re-downloaded) > I got round it by setting "download headers only" and "catch up" before > "synchronising" theserver. > > Some newsgroups are still missing from theserver, and the Bigpond droids > are in denial :-) I have been using it for eight years so there is no question of getting the name of the server wrong. But I am getting a message that a Firewall or anti virus is preventing me from accessing the Internet to reach the Newsgroups which is nonsense, as I am sending/receiving emails Regards, Kate
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X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,a58e3cd873c39034 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,a58e3cd873c39034 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid63495f84b8,gid51c480b91d,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Kate <kate.spencer9@bigpond.com> Newsgroups: wa.general,aus.general Subject: Re: Bigpond news server dead for several days. wa.general seeing posts but not any other group Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 42 Message-ID: <f115ab6c-4436-4991-b30e-d7f361494260@q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <4c360932.3983438@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <997a6e79-d802-45de-9809-c58a1954fa03@v35g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <41Q2o.1688$Yv.1329@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.138.141.157 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1280046316 13602 127.0.0.1 (25 Jul 2010 08:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=144.138.141.157; posting-account=zwtPQwoAAAAv_jPace9BzqrbVORN2VnF User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; InfoPath.1),gzip(gfe)