Re: Since BlockNews didn't continue working

On 3/11/2024 2:00 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
 

https://i.imgur.com/cq9SfVI.png

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Did you unsubscribe and resubscribe all your blocknews groups?
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Blocknews moved some/all of the groups to a new server, and assigned new
article numbers to all the posts in all the groups they moved.  This
messed with the continuity of the article numbers I captured in my
database.  I fixed that, but they should've kept the old numbers.
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But they also dropped alt.comp.os.windows-11, and lost all the old
articles dating back to Nov 2021.
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And the new server seems very slow - whereas I used to submit a post and
it was available 2-3 seconds later, now I won't get it from the server
for 10 minutes sometimes.
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It's a letdown after years of stellar blocknews service.

  I was able to use BlockNews in Thunderbird, but not Agent.  Couldn't
get it to succeed in pulling headers.  Went back to Eternal September.
 

Some "Relf" type parochial third-world nut might've fucked it up for them.
Use German servers. They're maintained by first-world people, not "Mormons" and alike.
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