On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:39:31 -0600, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
wrote:
>In alt.fan.frank.mccoy Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:09:38 -0600, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>In alt.fan.frank.mccoy Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:09:57 -0600, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>In alt.fan.frank.mccoy Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:30:33 -0600, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>A text-only message; not a followup.
>>>>>>>(This is a test. This is *only* a test. If this had been a real erotic
>>>>>>>story notification you would have been redirected to the local
>>>>>>>sex-stories newsgroup in your newsserver. This concludes this test of
>>>>>>>the Emergency Erotic Stories Notification System. We now return you to
>>>>>>>your regularly scheduled porn. BZZZZZTT!)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks, as I suspected, I got the text message, but not the one with
>>>>>>the picture.
>>>>>
>>>>>Don't give up yet.
>>>>>Often longer posts (like binaries) take longer to propagate.
>>>>
>>>>I suspect that one of the ways Giganews can handle the retention they
>>>>do (200 days binaries and indefinite text) that they only propagate
>>>>binaries on specifically binary groups.
>>>
>>>Perhaps time to get a *real* newsserver?
>>
>>Giganews isn't real? I'm there because of their retention and that
>>they have nearly every newsgroup. I was with Uncensored News for
>>years but their retention was getting down to hours, if I didn't check
>>two or three times a day I'd loose messages because they'd have
>>expired, and ISP news servers aren't worth the trouble, between almost
>>no retention and only a few newsgroups.
>
>Altopia, in my opinion, has always been the best.
>In the early days, their retention was a bit poor; but they've always
>carried *all* the newsgroups, never honored cancels, and have been
>pretty much the gold standard. That's why, in spite of my ISP having
>"free" newsservice for years and me on a *very* tight (read almost
>nonexistant) budget, I've stuck with them all these years.
>
>Lately their retention has been so good it's getting to the ridiculous
>stage. I guess that's because disk space has gotten to be ridiculously
>cheap.
>
>Right now I just got around to downloading some cartoons that are about
>two months old. All still there.
I'll check it out.
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