Advice / information please.

Hi
I don't know if there is a filter on which blocks me or blocks P.N. Postings
BUT ....... what follows was posted by me yesterday and seems not to have
arrived! (:<((

Hello everyone
Been some pretty damning remarks about "teNsulP" - (sorry, reversed-just in
case it's a filter) on here in the recent past -
have things stabilised for an "Average" downloader / user?
Can anybody recommend them - other than to "save a few pence?"
Still bemused by they banter over ISP's and wonder how they seem to get away
with "One way" contracts - one's they can wriggle out of but you seem to be
held to unmercifully!
I am considering the "standard" - £14.99/month service.
Constructive advice welcome for an average user who will "max" at 512k at
present.
Thanks
Hew.

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Hew Moore <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi
> I don't know if there is a filter on which blocks me or blocks P.N.
> Postings BUT ....... what follows was posted by me yesterday and
> seems not to have arrived! (:<((
>
> Hello everyone
> Been some pretty damning remarks about "teNsulP" - (sorry,
> reversed-just in case it's a filter) on here in the recent past -
> have things stabilised for an "Average" downloader / user?
> Can anybody recommend them - other than to "save a few pence?"
> Still bemused by they banter over ISP's and wonder how they seem to
> get away with "One way" contracts - one's they can wriggle out of but
> you seem to be held to unmercifully!
> I am considering the "standard" - £14.99/month service.
> Constructive advice welcome for an average user who will "max" at
> 512k at present.
> Thanks
> Hew.

I can assure you that your post *did* arrive, and - to date - has received
eight responses.

If you're not seeing it, it's most likely due to the settings in *your*
newsreader - rather than to anything external.
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Cheers,
Tim
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Hi Tim
Well that's most strange .... appreciate your comments, but
1) I don't understand why the first and all replies are invisible to me and
then why I can see my second posting and your reply!
2) where to start to look now! I have made sure that all blocked senders in
a News items are removed and will now have a trawl around Norton I.S. as I
still can't see the original post and subsequent replies.
Thanks, Tim.
To all of you who have taken the trouble to reply, thanks I will try to
recover your replies.
Regards
Hew.

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Hew Moore <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi Tim
> Well that's most strange .... appreciate your comments, but
> 1) I don't understand why the first and all replies are invisible to
> me and then why I can see my second posting and your reply!
> 2) where to start to look now! I have made sure that all blocked
> senders in a News items are removed and will now have a trawl around
> Norton I.S. as I still can't see the original post and subsequent
> replies.
> Thanks, Tim.
> To all of you who have taken the trouble to reply, thanks I will try
> to recover your replies.
> Regards
> Hew.

Strange! What newsreader (e.g. Outlook Express) are you using, and have you
got any message rules set up?

Meanwhile, you can see your original message, and the replies, via Google at
http://tinyurl.com/8qqub
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Tim
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HI Tim
Yup I'm on IE Express here - nice & simple - running Win98se. Found the
problem to be that there had been another posting re PN about 6m ago and my
message was attached to that - as were the replies!!
Solution .......
View>Current View>Group Messages by Conversation [untick] - "jobs-a-good
'un"
Many thanks for your help.
Regards
Hew

"Tiscali Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Hew Moore <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I don't know if there is a filter on which blocks me or blocks P.N.
>> Postings BUT ....... what follows was posted by me yesterday and
>> seems not to have arrived! (:<((
>>
>> Hello everyone
>> Been some pretty damning remarks about "teNsulP" - (sorry,
>> reversed-just in case it's a filter) on here in the recent past -
>> have things stabilised for an "Average" downloader / user?
>> Can anybody recommend them - other than to "save a few pence?"
>> Still bemused by they banter over ISP's and wonder how they seem to
>> get away with "One way" contracts - one's they can wriggle out of but
>> you seem to be held to unmercifully!
>> I am considering the "standard" - £14.99/month service.
>> Constructive advice welcome for an average user who will "max" at
>> 512k at present.
>> Thanks
>> Hew.
>
> I can assure you that your post *did* arrive, and - to date - has received
> eight responses.
>
> If you're not seeing it, it's most likely due to the settings in *your*
> newsreader - rather than to anything external.

Just to complicate matters. The posting the OP is referring to isn't showing
on Giganews, nor are any of the responses.
Maybe its a new form of PN "traffic shaping" ? i.e filter out any posts
derogatory to PN, in a bid to cut down "traffic"

;o)

On 27 Nov 2005 16:56, "Gizmo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Just to complicate matters. The posting the OP is referring to isn't showing
>on Giganews, nor are any of the responses.
>Maybe its a new form of PN "traffic shaping" ? i.e filter out any posts
>derogatory to PN, in a bid to cut down "traffic"

But it didn't start at Plus.Net anyway... After all, he's asking about moving
to them isn't he :-) Here's the path for the first post in the thread. If
Giganews doesn't have the thread, that just seems very odd !!! Peter M.

ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net!nntp-xref-master.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool02.plus.net!
nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!
newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!
195.92.193.196.MISMATCH!nntp.theplanet.net!
inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!not-for-mail

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Gizmo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
> Just to complicate matters. The posting the OP is referring to isn't
> showing on Giganews, nor are any of the responses.
> Maybe its a new form of PN "traffic shaping" ? i.e filter out any
> posts derogatory to PN, in a bid to cut down "traffic"
>

I doubt it! I don't think the OP is yet a PN customer - so his posts won't
go through their servers.
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Tim
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On Sunday, in article
<(E-Mail Removed) us.net>
us-(E-Mail Removed) "Peter M" wrote:

> But it didn't start at Plus.Net anyway... After all, he's asking about moving
> to them isn't he :-) Here's the path for the first post in the thread. If
> Giganews doesn't have the thread, that just seems very odd !!! Peter M.
>
> ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net!nntp-xref-master.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool02.plus.net!
> nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!
> newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!
> 195.92.193.196.MISMATCH!nntp.theplanet.net!
> inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!not-for-mail

I'm using news.individual.net, and that has a very direct connection to
Giganews. It also gets stuff from theplanet.net via t-online.de and so
there's a pretty decent route to Giganews right there.

But I have known ISP news servers go into a sulk, and just not pass
stuff to the rest of the internet for what seems like ages. They accept
an article, and might not let even their own customers see it. So it
doesn't greatly surprise me that somebody can post a message and it
vanishes.

One reason I get my news connection where I do is that they know much
more than my ISP about how to run a news server. This isn't quite the
compliment it might be, as the starting point is so low.

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