What's up with Plusnet's newsgroups service

Hello
Anyone else having probs with Plusnet's newsgroup service
This is the 4th day when it is miserably slow or non existent

Are you using the text newsgroup? Make sure you have it set to
text.usenet.plus.net assuming you don't want binaries.

Peter Crosland

"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Are you using the text newsgroup? Make sure you have it set to
>text.usenet.plus.net assuming you don't want binaries.

Are you sure? Are you a customer?

http://www.plus.net/support/member_f...a_glance.shtml

says "Text Usenet news.plus.net"

> Are you sure? Are you a customer?
>
> http://www.plus.net/support/member_f...a_glance.shtml
>
> says "Text Usenet news.plus.net"

Don't believe everything on the PN site !

It is definitely ' text.usenet.plus.net 'for text groups.

Chris

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:36:26 +0000, Mr NoBody <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Are you using the text newsgroup? Make sure you have it set to
>>text.usenet.plus.net assuming you don't want binaries.
>
>Are you sure? Are you a customer?
>
>http://www.plus.net/support/member_f...a_glance.shtml
>
>says "Text Usenet news.plus.net"

Thanks guys, that did the trick
Regards
Martin
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"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:441d59be$0$9254$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Are you using the text newsgroup? Make sure you have it set to
> text.usenet.plus.net assuming you don't want binaries.
>
> Peter Crosland

Shortly to become a redundant question seeing as the binary section is being
turned off shortly.

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, James wrote:

> "Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:441d59be$0$9254$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Are you using the text newsgroup? Make sure you have it set to
> > text.usenet.plus.net assuming you don't want binaries.
>
> Shortly to become a redundant question seeing as the binary section
> is being turned off shortly.

I haven't seen any statement yet as to whether news.plus.net will then
become the new text-only news server in place of text.usenet.plus.net,
or what.

Their customer settings only mention news.plus.net; knowledge of the
existence of text.usenet.plus.net seems to be scattered around usenet
discussions and their (bleagh) web forums, but not listed clearly in
any obvious documentation - at least not that I was able to find when
I looked.

<Martin ©¿©¬ @REMOVETHIS.plus.com> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello
> Anyone else having probs with Plusnet's newsgroup service
> This is the 4th day when it is miserably slow or non existent

Yes! Absolutely a shambles. These people have NO idea how to run an ISP. I
suppose it COULD be true that we are supposed to be using the
text.usenet.plus.net server BUT - has anyone bothered to tell us? They are
so busy cutting their costs to improve the bottom line that they can't be
bothered to tell their customers what's going on. No matter - this sort of
thing just leads to corporate disaster.

"Alan J. Flavell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) la.ac.uk...
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, James wrote:
>
>> "Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:441d59be$0$9254$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Are you using the text newsgroup? Make sure you have it set to
>> > text.usenet.plus.net assuming you don't want binaries.
>>
>> Shortly to become a redundant question seeing as the binary section
>> is being turned off shortly.
>
> I haven't seen any statement yet as to whether news.plus.net will then
> become the new text-only news server in place of text.usenet.plus.net,
> or what.
>
> Their customer settings only mention news.plus.net; knowledge of the
> existence of text.usenet.plus.net seems to be scattered around usenet
> discussions and their (bleagh) web forums, but not listed clearly in
> any obvious documentation - at least not that I was able to find when
> I looked.

I was refering to the "assuming you dont want binarys?" part.

Roger Cain wrote


> > Hello
> > Anyone else having probs with Plusnet's newsgroup service
> > This is the 4th day when it is miserably slow or non existent
>
> Yes! Absolutely a shambles. These people have NO idea how to run an ISP. I
> suppose it COULD be true that we are supposed to be using the
> text.usenet.plus.net server BUT - has anyone bothered to tell us? They are
> so busy cutting their costs to improve the bottom line that they can't be
> bothered to tell their customers what's going on. No matter - this sort of
> thing just leads to corporate disaster.
>

You're not helping matters by paying them £xx a month. Vote with your
feet and move to another ISP that doesn't treat it's customers like
shit.