Re: Anyone use Newsguy?

Bob <bob@xxxxxxxxxxx> delighted us to no end by taking a lime
green crayon and scribbling in news:dqm4qh01up6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
on the hallowed day of Wed 18 Jan 2006 11:27:13a:

>>Well Newsguy doesn't seem to be so great as far as propegating.
>>They're even slow to their own news server, much less the rest.
>
> Hi there,

Hi Bob!

>
> I apologize for the intrusion, but a NewsGuy member had
> contacted us about this discussion thread, and asked if we
> could provide some insight. We'll give it a try, and if you
> have any questions about the following, please do not hesitate
> to contact us (bob@xxxxxxxxxxx or support@xxxxxxxxxxx).

I think I've talked to you, through email, though it was a
loooooong time ago (when I was still enough of a n00b to submit
abuse reports). You were nice to deal with and gave me an immediate
response, which is why I went to Newsguy *first* this time around.
See? People remember when someone's nice :)


> We've been providing Usenet services for about 14 years, and
> understand the importance of article propagation. The process
> itself is controlled and monitored throughout the day to ensure
> that incoming posts reach our servers and propagate to other
> servers in a timely manner.
>
> NewsGuy maintains newsfeed relationships with competing Usenet
> services (Easynews, Supernews, etc.), as well as large Telcos
> and ISPs, so we propagate newsgroup content through an
> extensive network.
>
> Looking at your initial post for example...
>
> Message-ID: <Xns974ED9896CF5Ano.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ...the post hit our frontend servers at 21:17:42, and was
> distributed to all of our local news servers by 21:18:50. By
> 21:23:43 your post was distributed to Usenet through our
> network of outbound newsfeeds. Considering that we process over
> 4 million new postings a day on our servers, a 6 minute
> turnaround time from initial post to propagation is pretty
> reasonable.

That's 6 minutes to the NEWSGUY servers. It took longer than that
to hit Supernews, Giganews, etc. As I write this out, it does sound
silly making a big deal about 5-10 minutes. I'm just used to 1-2
minute propegation time.


> Once the post is distributed to our outbound newsfeeds, we
> can't control how those receiving news servers decide to queue
> and receive those incoming posts, no more than they can control
> how we process incoming posts on our local servers. If you saw
> an unreasonable delay with another news server picking up your
> post, you should be able to contact their support people to see
> why they experienced a delay.

I've used Giganews and Supernews services, and never more than 2
minutes on either. Problem with Giganews is it's too expensive/more
service than I need. and Supernews censors/filters posts that
should not be filtered.

I've only seen latency happen with your service. I'll try it a few
more times today and see. I *do* appreciate you taking the time to
respond, and I'm not trying to knock your service in any way. I'm
just telling you what I see, and comparing it to what I'm used to.


> I hope the information is helpful, and if you have any
> questions, please let us know.

It has, and I appreciate you taking the time. Now I just need to
figure what's more important for 5.95/month...dealing with
censoring or a few extra minutes for posts to show up.


--
-=Mara=-
If stupidity was painful, The Rocky Mountains would be full of
screams.


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