Re: This news server is in a sorry state

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 10/03/03 

Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:44:22 -0400

These groups are slightly different than pure Usenet. There really is some
level of special significance to the MSNEWS.MICROSOFT.COM host (which is
also not a single server.)

However, I'm not a usenet expert, so I can't describe accurately how this
difference is significant.

Suffice to say that a large proportion of the users here are reading and
writing to Microsoft's in-house servers--both web-based

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=cddgall

and standard NNTP.

These include users whose ISP doesn't provide NNTP service, or doesn't
provide these groups, or whose service isn't worth using, etc.

So--the health of those servers is important to a large portion of the users
here--hence the thread.

"Phil Weldon" <pweldon@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:j45fb.13613$f11.4041@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Well, the Microsoft news server is NOT the 'source'. If I were you, I'd
> use, if I had the choice, whatever server had the best performance rather
> than complaining. I just noticed your post; it is stamped 12 minutes
prior
> to my reply stamp. And when you use the term 'this' in reference to a
news
> server it really has no meaning. You don't even know which particular
> server is being used; and there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of
> thousands.

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