"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Tumbleweed wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Tumbleweed wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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JennyC wrote:
Sorry about this, but I have not signed up for the German
newsfeeder, and want to check whether this one works as
well......... Jenny

I get confused around headers, but is this new one called
"amstwist"?
If so, do please supply details. I don't mind paying for the
German
server, but it does go wrong quite often, so I'm always
interested
in
alternatives -- was considering Teranews.

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Mike.


It has never (AFAICR) gone wrong for me in the past 18 or so
months.

You're lucky, or maybe don't so often use the heavier-traffic
newsgroups: it chokes every so often on busy groups (I've never
had
it do so on urg), and displays a fictitious error message instead
of
posting. Yesterday, it wouldn't download at all for a period; this
is
less frequent, though.

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Mike.


The busiest newsgroup I use probably gets 500-800 messages a day
max.
Dunno if thats a lot or not?

That's a lot. What's going on, then? Do you also use OE? (And would
the reader make any difference?)

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Mike.



I do use OE, and as I said have had no issues with NIN for the 18 months or
so of using it (Or, AFAICR, for the period of a year when i used it some
time before that). Makes no difference if its a newsgroup that gets 2 or 3
messages, or 500+. I would suspect your ISP as a starter . Who is it? Or it
might be an issue with your outlook set up, have you tried using an
alternative newsreader at the times that you are having problem?

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Tumbleweed

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