From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4607 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Powe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: posting to news.newsguy.com Date: 04 Mar 2005 20:23:49 -0500 Organization: The Hospice of the Mind Message-ID: References: <87acpj2pxe.fsf@ellen.trollope.org> <877jkn5941.fld@barrow.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670487 23981 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:21:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:02 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-e!spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news2 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-926.newsdawg.com X-PGP: http://www.trollope.org/pgp.txt X-Home-Page: http://www.trollope.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4748 Original-Lines: 70 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4748 Tue Jan 17 17:34:02 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4607 Archived-At: >>>>> "Floyd" == Floyd L Davidson writes: Floyd> Michael Powe wrote: >> I wonder if anyone else is having problems posting to newsguy. >> Last week, gnus decided it wouldn't post to gnu.emacs.help. >> Today, it's decided it won't past to comp.mail.mutt. I emailed >> newsguy about it last week and their response was that there >> wasn't anything going on with that newsgroup; and the only >> thing they could see out of the ordinary was that my newsreader >> was disconnecting and reconnecting repeatedly in a short period >> of time. >> >> I have been using gnus for so long that I dread the thought of >> trying something else, but it seems like there's always some >> little thing like this that's getting borked up. I know I'm >> being grouchy but ... I just want it to work. Floyd> I used to use newsguy.com as my primary news server, but Floyd> had an experience similar to that some time back, and Floyd> switched to using my ISP's news service (which they Floyd> recently changed from another server to supernews.com, Floyd> which did not make me at all happy, as I'd dropped Floyd> supernews a couple years before in favor of newsguy...). yeah, i just re-upped on newsguy, too. i got on them because my isp went to an outsourcer and there were just all kinds of problems. articles would disappear, get renumbered -- yeah, that was cool. that was a few years ago, though. Floyd> Anyway, at one point newsguy did something to their server Floyd> that made an older version of gnus stop working, and trying Floyd> to deal with them to find out what was going on was nothing Floyd> short of a total pain. Eventually I just upgraded to what Floyd> was then the latest version of gnus, and all was well Floyd> again. But it really annoyed me to have a network control Floyd> type tell me they had done absolutely nothing, and that if Floyd> they had a problem there would be thousands and thousands Floyd> of complaints, and there weren't. (I'm a retired long Floyd> distance telecom weenie, and I *know* that you can have Floyd> major disasters that only show up with a few little Floyd> complaints... which when investigated turn out to be the Floyd> tip of an iceberg with thousands and thousands of calls Floyd> being dropped!) Floyd> Whatever... I just tried posting to alt.test using Floyd> newsguy's server, twice. It takes the article. The next Floyd> time I update, I see that there is one unread article Floyd> listed for alt.test. However, no new article is actually Floyd> available. An article posted to supernews.com did show up, Floyd> at least on supernews.com, though not on newsguy.com. And Floyd> then, 24 minutes after it was posted to newsguy.com, the Floyd> first of my articles has shown up on supernews.com, but Floyd> none of them have shown up on newsguy.com as yet. Floyd> It appears they are experiencing temporary technical Floyd> difficulties... ;-) Well, they "batch post" -- posts go out every 15 minutes. So, there is an annoying delay in there. But I am able to post in here and in alt.test at the same time i can't post in the other newsgroup. it's just weird. Gnus acts like it's sending, an article ID is generated, but it's hung. If i leave it long enough, the connection will close. Thanks. I may have to give the isp connection another try. mp -- 'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.