Re: Misc. Rural gone from Motzarella

In article <95s8m4h8nhvjndmfk965t11anmo83em7te@xxxxxxx>,
Jimw <jimw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:59:39 -0600, Rob <rob2008xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:59:28 -0800, Don Bruder <dakidd@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <fk4sl4dakcp1v1pes2h38g7ppv2onhf5o3@xxxxxxx>,
Jim Elbrecht <elbrecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve IA <whispurrthecat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For various reasons, I've switched to Motzarella as my newsgroup server.
This morning, my reader told me that it was not a valid newsgroup.
Looking at their website it appears they had a crash yesterday. Perhaps
M.R. was lost and not restored due to it's light usage (and content?) 8-)
I contacted them and ask for it to be restored. With the seeming demise
of AIOE and the hoops to be jumped through to get here via my local
ISP(which I'm using now), and the fact that I will NOT use scroogle, I
really hope they will restore us in their heirarchy.

Anybody else having trouble?


No real trouble- but I think the propagation of m.r. must be way less
than thousands of other groups. I subscribe to 40-50 groups and
have noted that m.r. acts a lot like some of the moderated groups.
[I'm on individual.net for Usenet, BTW]

M.R. will have no new headers for several [12-15?] hours-- then 6-10
will appear all at once. Meanwhile posts will be trickling in
continuously on all the other groups.

Jim

Well, for those of us on Motzarella, it's all about "server barfed" a
few hours before midnight Pacific time on new year's eve. That got
fixed, but according to info on their page, they've now got several
hundred groups (misc.rural and rec.arts.sf.written are the only two that
I read, and thus notice missing - no idea which others are affected)
that have something screwed up in their message databases, so they're
having to rebuild them, and folks reading them will need to
unsubscribe/resubscribe to get them back once the rebuild process is
complete.

I briefly tried MR and found it not working more often than it worked.
I also found that I often had to resend a message several times. It
would say the newsgroup was invalid, yet it would accept the message
on a second or third send. One group I occasionally used when I had
other usenet access, did not appear on their latest group list. One
day, just for the heck of it, I posted a message on another group, and
added the missing group as a crosspost to the header. The message DID
get posted on that group, as I confirmed using google groups. MR has
problems. I'm not complaining, since it's free, but still there are
problems.

I'm posting from Moz right now, and misc.rural is on the list.
However, I constantly get "invalid group" messages on ALL newsgroups
when I use Moz and post a message. I have to often send the message
two or more times before it finally gets posted. I had this problem a
while back, which is why I switched to aioe, but now that they are
gone, I am back to Moz, at least until I get a new ISP that includes a
paid usenet service. Moz has always had this posting problem, and is
one of the slowest services I have used, but for the price of $zero, I
wont complain. It still is much better than google groups.

Strange - I can't recall ever having any problems with posting, to any
of the groups I read, since switching over to them when Comcast
clobbered usenet access a couple months ago. I've gotten "Too many
connections from your IP" messages a handful of times, but those have
always resolved themselves in a matter of a few minutes.

And a definite "Amen" from me to the google groups statement... Google
groups sucks hard enough to pull a bowling ball through 50 feet of
quarter-inch copper tubing.

--
Don Bruder - dakidd@xxxxxxxxx - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist,
or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow"
somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my
ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd> for more info
.

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