Hi I was wondering if there has been a problem with the group. I have not had an update for several days now and I have posted some messages that have not appeared.
My News server - news.saix.co.za - I assume mirrors the site. Is this correct? Does the fact that I am not getting any updates mean that they are not mirroring often enough? Many times I will post and see my post appearing seconds after I have sent it, so I am not too sure how the newsgroup story works but I am clear on the fact that I am not getting too many updates.
Well Stephen, there is a basic concept error here. This is not a 'site' it's a usegroup. When you post, it goes to your isp's newserver, that should propagate it arround the net. Maybe your isp isn't doing this.
On or around Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:31:09 +0100, "Andrew Mawson" enlightened us thusly:
I'd guess at a propagation problem. Try looking on google groups to see if the messages are the same there. If there are loads more messages, then complain to your ISP that their news server is not working right.
basically, when you post a message, it goes from your machine to your ISPs news server, or rather, to the news server you use, in my case news.individual.net which is in berlin. Once there it sits on their server for a specified length of time, known as "retention time", and then gets deleted again, otherwise they'd run out of disc space. All the news servers poll other news servers at intervals and say "You got any new messages for me?" and if there are, collect 'em. A typical news server has a list of other servers to poll for news and goes around them all quite frequently; the whole network is thus robust and proof for the most part against individual server failures.
Then later on, you go online and check for new messages and the server sends 'em to you. Your message will be on your server almost immediately, or should be, so if you're not seeing your own messages, then there's something odd about either your local settings (such as filters) or your news server.
Do check carefully that you've not got a silly accidental filter, though. I've had that in the past, wrongly configured filter killing mail from someone I wanted to receive mail from...
If you see your messages, but not others, then it sounds more like a propagation problem.
Most news servers run by ISP's seem to be crap - they dont usually put much effort into it. There are other newsservers that are much better (that often charge a small fee for their use). A lot of us on here use news.individual.net which costs a few euros a year. Worth it though since you actually get all the posts and it always seems to work!
I can't complain about the server run by ClaraNET. I used to have a dialup account, and when I came out here to France I switched to mail and news only £9.99 per year, and I still have my webspace from the "full" account :) I must put something on it...
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