----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Buehler" <steven@sanctuaryweb.org>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Road Runner Garbage
> --- bpreece1 <bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > I don't know if I am the only one that uses NewsGroups but for years
Road
> > Runner has always been garbage.
> > Now it's worse. None of the groups postings except for the ones on Road
> > Runners service is conplete or stays on the threads.
>
> A little known fact for most RR users is that you are not restricted to
your
> local RR's news server. For example, on my NewsBin application I pull
both
> from the Tampa Bay RR server (news-server.tampabay.rr.com) and from the
Central
> Florida (Orlando) one (news-server.cfl.rr.com). Usually what the Tampa
Bay
> server is missing the Central Florida one will have. As long as you're
coming
> in from an RR IP address most of them will let you in.
Same thing with the Orlando Servers so this is more of a problem among the
whole RR servers
Wish I had the addresses of all the NNTP's they have I bet you will see it
is their entire network!
> The other issue is that Usenet is more popular among "old timer" users
rather
> than newer ones. When's the last time you ever saw RR or any other ISP
tout
> its usenet capability in public? Most people I know around here (except
for us
> die-hards who remember when Usenet, IRC, and BBSs were *the* way of group
> communication) don't even know what Usenet and Newsgroups are. Because of
> that, many ISP's (I think RR included) put Usenet down toward the low end
of
> the priority list in terms of what gets the development bucks.
>
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