Re: Eternal-september problems

guido wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> wrote in news:v98dqv$sdie$1@dont-email.me:

Op 10-8-2024 om 20:52 schreef HenHanna:

On 8/10/2024 10:57 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>
  Ar an deichiú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh occam:
>
  > On 10/08/2024 08:12, Peter Moylan wrote:
  > > If the eternal-september is behaving strangely for you, you're
not the
  > > only one. I suspect that there's been a database corruption
that leads
  > > to our being served with duplicate articles. I guess we just
have to
  > > hope that it settles down soon.
  > >
  >
  > It's a good free service, with occasional hiccups. This is the
reason
  > why I switched to an alternative (almost free) service
  > (news.individual.net) a few years ago. I still have
eternal-september as
  > a backup. [This message is sent, courtesy of E-S.]
>
I use news.individual.net and am very happy with it. In theory they
require a
German domicile and my German IBAN from N26 is sufficient proof for
that for
them. They accept payment using Paypal, I’m not sure what they do in
that event
to confirm a German domicile.
>

>
>
really?   i'm not seeing any problems (recently) with E-S  (and TB).

 
My (and others') E-S newsgroups lost most of their content, only recent
messages were kept. Someone will try to restore them but it takes time,
three weeks for a start. See in e-s.support.
 

Most of the newsgroups I subscribe to now only retain articles back to June
29, 2024.  Retention used to be way back to 2022.  As you can see, I use
Xnews.  I've tried "Refresh Headers Special", but none of the older
articles comes back.

Wonder if this will be fixed.