Hooray. Demon's new server is up and running and I'm back.

Hello all. Have I missed much?
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On 12 Nov, 22:56, Ian Jelf wrote:
Hooray. * Demon's new server is up and running and I'm back.

Hello all. * Have I missed much?

Things seem to have been a little quiet on utl of late (though my
attendance here is unfortunately somewhat erratic!). Lately we've had
talk of whether babbling buses are a benefit or a bane, DLR delays and
debatable deterioration, and Bozza's new business blueprint for TfL's
future - his "Way to Go" (on which I have yet to pass judgement!).
Bizarrely many matters London transportational were touched upon in a
recent uk.railway thread ("Let's all do the Boris") which somewhat
unexpectedly sprang from the unpromising source of a semi-coherent
rant.

Somewhat shocking that Demon, the progenitor of UK internet access,
should have managed to make such a meal out of providing usenet
access. Does this mean newsgroups are dying?

On Nov 12, 10:56 pm, Ian Jelf wrote:
Hooray. Demon's new server is up and running and I'm back.

Hello all. Have I missed much?

Just that replica watches are getting cheaper.

In message
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Mizter T writes
Somewhat shocking that Demon, the progenitor of UK internet access,
should have managed to make such a meal out of providing usenet access.

That was my thought. There have been interruptions tot he Mail service
as well. Not lengthy ones but enough to cause me problems.

I've written to them asking what plans they have to offer a rebate on
their charge for the partial loss of service. The reply (from the
"missing the point" school of customer care, glibly told me that there
was no problem with the mail "at the moment" and that the news service
was due back shortly.

Needles to say, another e-mail has winged its way of to them.

On the subject of Usenet dying, I've always been surprised at how few
people outside, well, Usenet, have any idea of its existence or what it
is.

--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

In message
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Offramp writes
On Nov 12, 10:56 pm, Ian Jelf wrote:
Hooray. Demon's new server is up and running and I'm back.

Hello all. Have I missed much?

Just that replica watches are getting cheaper.

Pardon?! :-)
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

In uk.transport.london message ,
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:56:36, Ian Jelf posted:
Hooray. Demon's new server is up and running and I'm back.

Hello all. Have I missed much?

You apparently missed the chance of remaining present by getting your
Turnpike to use the AIOE news server, at a cost of €0.
http://www.aioe.org/

--
(c) John Stockton, nr London UK. replyYYWW merlyn demon co uk Turnpike 6.05.
Web URL:http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/tsfaq.html - Timo Salmi: Usenet Q&A.
Web URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/news-use.htm : about usage of News.
No Encoding. Quotes precede replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Mail no News.

Somewhat shocking that Demon, the progenitor of UK internet access,
should have managed to make such a meal out of providing usenet
access. Does this mean newsgroups are dying?

Not completely sure about newsgroups*, but Demon is definitely dying.

-- Alex T., Demon subscriber from April 2006 to June 2008

* - probably 75% of my favourite newsgroups died out in the past 2
years (thankfully some managed successful transition to web forums)

In message , Ian Jelf
writes
In message
,
Offramp writes
On Nov 12, 10:56 pm, Ian Jelf wrote:
Hooray. Demon's new server is up and running and I'm back.

Hello all. Have I missed much?

Just that replica watches are getting cheaper.

Pardon?! :-)

Sorry to follow up my own post but I've just looked at the threads and
the penny has dropped!
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Ian Jelf wrote:

I've written to them asking what plans they have to offer a rebate on
their charge for the partial loss of service.

Please keep me informed how you get on. I gave up waiting and started using
nntp.aioe.org for text - it's a lot quicker than Demon anyway. On the bright
side, Demon's new binaries service is vastly superior to their old one...
it's now always possible to get all the parts of a multi-part post, which
was rarely possible before.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Ian Jelf wrote:

On the subject of Usenet dying, I've always been surprised at how few
people outside, well, Usenet, have any idea of its existence or what it
is.

I imagine the people on gopherspace say much the same thing.

tom

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Osteoclasts = monsters from the DEEP -- Andrew