Is SAIX now working mornings only?

[Peter H.M.Brooks]

I've just had an e-mail from my ISP, saying that SAIX believe that
they've fixed a problem that was caused by international newsfeeds being
down.

It sounds unlikely to me that this fixes everything - after all, we've
had several months of slow and variable service.

Still, I'll check when this arrives on google - I am sending it at
07:18GMT - 09:18 SAST on the 8th January 200.

[Peter H.M. Brooks]

Post by Peter H.M.Brooks
I've just had an e-mail from my ISP, saying that SAIX believe that
they've fixed a problem that was caused by international newsfeeds being
down.
It sounds unlikely to me that this fixes everything - after all, we've
had several months of slow and variable service.
Still, I'll check when this arrives on google - I am sending it at
07:18GMT - 09:18 SAST on the 8th January 200.

Well, maybe it has been repaired! Here I can see it on google at 09:27
on the 8th January 2007.

That's as it should be.

Maybe somebody else can check the transit time in the afternoon.

[Steve Hayes]

Post by Peter H.M. Brooks

Post by Peter H.M.Brooks
I've just had an e-mail from my ISP, saying that SAIX believe that
they've fixed a problem that was caused by international newsfeeds being
down.
It sounds unlikely to me that this fixes everything - after all, we've
had several months of slow and variable service.
Still, I'll check when this arrives on google - I am sending it at
07:18GMT - 09:18 SAST on the 8th January 200.

Well, maybe it has been repaired! Here I can see it on google at 09:27
on the 8th January 2007.
That's as it should be.
Maybe somebody else can check the transit time in the afternoon.

I just got a huge bunch of messages today, some dating back to 1 January.

But I don't see why the international newsfeeds should cause Moira's messages
to take 2 days to reach me.

[Bernd Jendrissek]

Post by Steve Hayes

Post by Peter H.M.Brooks
I've just had an e-mail from my ISP, saying that SAIX believe that
they've fixed a problem that was caused by international newsfeeds
being down.

I first noticed a while back that dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu wasn't
responding - I (used to) suck a few groups' articles from there. That
seems to have been SAIX's (only?) international incoming feed.

How hard can it be for a telecomms monopoly to set up redundant
newsfeeds??!!?

Post by Steve Hayes
But I don't see why the international newsfeeds should cause Moira's
messages to take 2 days to reach me.

Because one of you is posting via some international path, and the other
uses something closer to SAIX, and the articles have to jump over the
big pond to get here, and the way they normally got to SAIX, is broken.

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Post by Steve Hayes

The problem is that i believe that my assertions are correct.

Yes, that is a problem.

[Bodie]

Have re-mailed ISP and SAIX with all thereferences and correspondence.
Lets see what falls when we shake the tree.
Bodie ..

--
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
("General Introduction to Psychoanalysis," S. Freud)

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Post by Steve Hayes

Post by Peter H.M.Brooks
I've just had an e-mail from my ISP, saying that SAIX believe that
they've fixed a problem that was caused by international newsfeeds
being down.

I first noticed a while back that dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu wasn't
responding - I (used to) suck a few groups' articles from there. That
seems to have been SAIX's (only?) international incoming feed.
How hard can it be for a telecomms monopoly to set up redundant
newsfeeds??!!?

Post by Steve Hayes
But I don't see why the international newsfeeds should cause Moira's
messages to take 2 days to reach me.

Because one of you is posting via some international path, and the other
uses something closer to SAIX, and the articles have to jump over the
big pond to get here, and the way they normally got to SAIX, is broken.
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Post by Steve Hayes

The problem is that i believe that my assertions are correct.

Yes, that is a problem.

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[Steve Hayes]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:22:29 +0000 (UTC), "Bernd Jendrissek"

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Post by Steve Hayes

Post by Peter H.M.Brooks
I've just had an e-mail from my ISP, saying that SAIX believe that
they've fixed a problem that was caused by international newsfeeds
being down.

I first noticed a while back that dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu wasn't
responding - I (used to) suck a few groups' articles from there. That
seems to have been SAIX's (only?) international incoming feed.
How hard can it be for a telecomms monopoly to set up redundant
newsfeeds??!!?

Post by Steve Hayes
But I don't see why the international newsfeeds should cause Moira's
messages to take 2 days to reach me.

Because one of you is posting via some international path, and the other
uses something closer to SAIX, and the articles have to jump over the
big pond to get here, and the way they normally got to SAIX, is broken.

I find I can read some newsgroups but not others.

[Bernd Jendrissek]

Post by Steve Hayes
I find I can read some newsgroups but not others.

Another thing I only remember noticing now is that SAIX seems to have
reset their "article high water marks". So if your newsreader is still
expecting to pull messages starting with article number 486737, but
SAIX's new high water mark is 12847, then another 486737-12847 = 473890
articles need to be posted before you see any new ones.

A bit of a goof on their part to reset these high water marks... for
precisely this reason (people not seeing any articles)!

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