Re: Repost from outside of Google: Google Groups woes again.

[Charlie <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

On 2/6/2012 12:59 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
> On 2012-02-06 10:31:50 -0700, Linards Ticmanis said:
>
> > On 02/06/2012 05:51 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
> > > Usually when Google Usenet Groups has a problem it's that posts from
> > > outside of Google's Usenet service take a long time to appear. Now I
> > > am seeing the opposite. The news server that I use from my ISP is
> > > getting posts from everywhere but Google.
> > >
> > > Anyone else seeing this?
> >
> > Yes indeed. It's all missing from news.arcor.de. So I guess Google is
> > the culprit, as usual.
> >
> > Dear Google Groups users: that means currently us who don't usually go
> > there (except for search purposes) can't read anything you're posting.
> > Please consider posting from somewhere else.
> >
> > Although I guess I'm behind the times in still thinking of Google as
> > nothing more than a slightly glorified search engine...
>
> I know that this has been discussed before, perhaps its time to discuss
> again.
>
> What are the alternatives? What are others using? If using an NNTP
> server, what client on what OS? If web-based, URL. Thanks.
>
> My list:
>
> Web:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/topics
>
>
> NNTP Server:
>
> news.xmission.com
>
>
> NNTP Client/Browser:
>
> nn (OS/X and UNIX), used to love in the '80s/'90s, now prefer GUI
> clients (better fonts for readability)
>
> Xnttp (OS/X), Ok, not actively developed. Minor annoyances.
>
> Unison (OS/X), nice, but for ~$30 US you'd think they would have a spell
> checker. Actively developed.
>
> NewsTap (iOS iPad and iPhone), Not bad, only iOS option. Actively
> developed.

NNTP Server: news.eternal-september.org
client: Thunderbird
OS: Windows 7

I haven't gotten any posts from Google Groups since February 2.

Charlie