PlusNet News service problems.

I like other customers of PlusNet have been going through and putting up
with the problems of the news service. Finally I changed back to the
German (Berlin) service, (of which I had already been a subscriber), and
apart from not getting the PlusNet Newsgroups I have been enjoying a
"lightening" service. Assuming the PlusNet service is or will be back to
its proper performance, what advantages would I gain by going back. I
don't miss the PlusNet newsgroups as I can always log on here to get the
service news so what would I miss by staying with the German service. I
have posted this question to the PlusNet forum but would also like to
get the views of posters to this newsgroup.
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Derrick Fawsitt <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:y5vGUABJ3j9AFwG$@fitzwilliamonline.com:

> I like other customers of PlusNet have been going through and putting
> up with the problems of the news service. Finally I changed back to
> the German (Berlin) service, (of which I had already been a
> subscriber), and apart from not getting the PlusNet Newsgroups I have
> been enjoying a "lightening" service. Assuming the PlusNet service is
> or will be back to its proper performance, what advantages would I
> gain by going back. I don't miss the PlusNet newsgroups as I can
> always log on here to get the service news so what would I miss by
> staying with the German service. I have posted this question to the
> PlusNet forum but would also like to get the views of posters to this
> newsgroup.

You probably won't miss anything if you're not a heavy user of usenet.
I'm using a Polish server at the moment. At home, I have my Linux file
server aggregating three feeds (PlusNet, Gazeta.pl and ClaraNews) into
one so missing posts on one server is retrieved on another server.

I guess heavy users of binary groups would have a 3rd party usenet
service anyway.

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Phil Chung <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Derrick Fawsitt <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:y5vGUABJ3j9AFwG$@fitzwilliamonline.com:
>
>> I like other customers of PlusNet have been going through and putting
>> up with the problems of the news service. Finally I changed back to
>> the German (Berlin) service, (of which I had already been a
>> subscriber), and apart from not getting the PlusNet Newsgroups I have
>> been enjoying a "lightening" service. Assuming the PlusNet service is
>> or will be back to its proper performance, what advantages would I
>> gain by going back. I don't miss the PlusNet newsgroups as I can
<snip>
> You probably won't miss anything if you're not a heavy user of usenet.
> I'm using a Polish server at the moment. At home, I have my Linux file
> server aggregating three feeds (PlusNet, Gazeta.pl and ClaraNews) into
> one so missing posts on one server is retrieved on another server.
>
> I guess heavy users of binary groups would have a 3rd party usenet
> service anyway.

Actually, at the moment, the plusnet newsserver has a comparable completion
rate to giganews, if not the same retention.

Ian Stirling <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:40f66080$0$39738$(E-Mail Removed):

> Actually, at the moment, the plusnet newsserver has a comparable
> completion rate to giganews, if not the same retention.
>

I'm not a binary newsgroup user so wouldn't know about that. I have
experienced missing posts on some of the text groups though hence the
aggragating news proxy I've set up at home.

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Phil Chung <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Ian Stirling <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:40f66080$0$39738$(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> Actually, at the moment, the plusnet newsserver has a comparable
>> completion rate to giganews, if not the same retention.
>>
>
> I'm not a binary newsgroup user so wouldn't know about that. I have
> experienced missing posts on some of the text groups though hence the
> aggragating news proxy I've set up at home.

Personally, I've not seen this, apart from occasional lack of appearance
locally of posts to morderated groups.

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:18:17 +0100, Derrick Fawsitt
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I like other customers of PlusNet have been going through and putting up
> with the problems of the news service. Finally I changed back to the
> German (Berlin) service, (of which I had already been a subscriber), and
> apart from not getting the PlusNet Newsgroups I have been enjoying a
> "lightening" service. Assuming the PlusNet service is or will be back to
> its proper performance, what advantages would I gain by going back. I
> don't miss the PlusNet newsgroups as I can always log on here to get the
> service news so what would I miss by staying with the German service. I
> have posted this question to the PlusNet forum but would also like to
> get the views of posters to this newsgroup.

Hi Derrick,

We recently launched our new usenet platform (just last week) and so far
feedback has been very good. Please feel free to try it out and let us
know what you think.

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Ian Stirling <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:40f68362$0$92635
$(E-Mail Removed):

> Personally, I've not seen this, apart from occasional lack of appearance
> locally of posts to morderated groups.
>

It's the odd few posts that are are posted through news.gazeta.pl or
news.wanadoo.co.uk/news.freeserve.co.uk that don't arrive - they arrive on
news.clara.net fine though. I was asked to contact PlusNet CS with
message IDs of some of the missing posts, but just got the reply that
completion is not garuanteed even for text groups.

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:43:37 +0100, PlusNet Support Team
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>We recently launched our new usenet platform (just last week) and so far
>feedback has been very good.

As a PN user I'll support that. It's now red hot, much faster than
I've experienced with either Giganews or Tera.

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, PlusNet Support Team
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:18:17 +0100, Derrick Fawsitt
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I like other customers of PlusNet have been going through and putting
>>up with the problems of the news service. Finally I changed back to
>>the German (Berlin) service, (of which I had already been a
>>subscriber), and apart from not getting the PlusNet Newsgroups I have
>>been enjoying a "lightening" service. Assuming the PlusNet service is
>>or will be back to its proper performance, what advantages would I
>>gain by going back. I don't miss the PlusNet newsgroups as I can
>>always log on here to get the service news so what would I miss by
>>staying with the German service. I have posted this question to the
>>PlusNet forum but would also like to get the views of posters to this newsgroup.
>
>Hi Derrick,
>
>We recently launched our new usenet platform (just last week) and so
>far feedback has been very good. Please feel free to try it out and let
>us know what you think.
>

Dave.

You know I was so happy with news.individual.net, (the new name for the
Berlin news server), that I was simply going to remain with it but your
post was so warm and friendly that I will indeed do so. However, you
might like to match it with the Berlin server in performance so it would
be interesting to hear from anyone who is using PN's and the Berlin one
right now to see how they compare. For my part I find the German one
like lightening and was reluctant to leave it now. You really cannot
blame me after what we all went through while you were doing the work
you had to do in PlusNet. However, as I said above, I will indeed go
back to try it. Perhaps if you have time you might make sure I have the
correct configuration as at this stage I am not sure whether its "to
beta or not to beta", that is the question, (with apologies to Bill
Shakespeare).
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Derrick Fawsitt

"Derrick Fawsitt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)
> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, PlusNet Support Team
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:18:17 +0100, Derrick Fawsitt
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> I like other customers of PlusNet have been going through and
>>> putting
>>> up with the problems of the news service. Finally I changed back to
>>> the German (Berlin) service, (of which I had already been a
>>> subscriber), and apart from not getting the PlusNet Newsgroups I
>>> have
>>> been enjoying a "lightening" service. Assuming the PlusNet service
>>> is
>>> or will be back to its proper performance, what advantages would I
>>> gain by going back. I don't miss the PlusNet newsgroups as I can
>>> always log on here to get the service news so what would I miss by
>>> staying with the German service. I have posted this question to the
>>> PlusNet forum but would also like to get the views of posters to
>>> this newsgroup.
>>
>> Hi Derrick,
>>
>> We recently launched our new usenet platform (just last week) and so
>> far feedback has been very good. Please feel free to try it out and
>> let us know what you think.
>>
>
> Dave.
>
> You know I was so happy with news.individual.net, (the new name for
> the Berlin news server), that I was simply going to remain with it
> but your post was so warm and friendly that I will indeed do so.
> However, you might like to match it with the Berlin server in
> performance so it would be interesting to hear from anyone who is
> using PN's and the Berlin one right now to see how they compare. For
> my part I find the German one like lightening and was reluctant to
> leave it now. You really cannot blame me after what we all went
> through while you were doing the work you had to do in PlusNet.
> However, as I said above, I will indeed go back to try it. Perhaps if
> you have time you might make sure I have the correct configuration as
> at this stage I am not sure whether its "to beta or not to beta",
> that is the question, (with apologies to Bill Shakespeare).

Leave out the beta, (usenet.plus.net is all you need).

I have used the German server for years, started when it was cis.dfn.de.
Text groups on the Plusnet server, when it was in good health, were always
at least as good and often got posts marginally before the German server.
This situation has returned with the completion of the Plusnet server work
and the new server put on line.

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