Teranews.com worse than Orcon News server

Well....I've tried teranews.com's usenet news service for a couple of weeks
now....and generally Teranews make orcon look good.

Problems:

- missing posts (mine and others)
- can't contact server (a lot)
- slow to respond when it is there....
- sometimes I can respond to existing threads, but it won't show any of my
original posts. No error messages....

 

steve said the following on 11/07/2004 10:34:

I have news.individual.net (free but reg required) loaded up and its
good. retention (which seems tomatter to some) is not good but its fast

 

Yes, I have had all of those problems on both Orcon and Teranews. As far
as which is worst, it seems to change from one to the other. Sometimes
they are as bad as each other. Yours points 2 & 3 can be bad at times on
Teranews.

 

Tried news.individual.net?

Why I suggested it I don't know - it's not like I miss your 'I Luv
Mike Moore' posts when/if they don't go thru.

 

Try this one then.

beta.teranews.com

Just log in with your normal account #

 

Just downloaded headers from some binary groups on both Tera and
orcon.

You must be joking??

Orcon 1 part of a 40 part file. Good?? I don't think so..

Tera 40 parts of a 40 part file.. much better.

 

Don't know about Orcon but Teranews has been pretty useless for a
while now. Propagation has been sporadic at best for a month or more.
Bubba is no better... I think they're essentially the same feed.

The big bummer is that I've tried several pay servers that aren't a
lot better for reliability. I'd hate to be paying for this kind of
crappy service!

 

Fine for people who don't need binaries. What kind of warez come in 40
parts?

 

paora wrote:

About to.

We're both part of the 'amazing diversity' that should be USENET.

 

I don't use binary newsgroups. I used to.....like 9 years ago - but the web
and p2p apps made access to binary materials of any sort much easier than
via newsgroups.

 

Thanks, Sally. I agree completely.

I'll try news.individual.net as suggested by some.

Orcon appear to have stopped carrying several newsgroups I follow...(like
alt.politics) and haven't been responding to e-mails to the help desk
asking what happened and why....

Orcon's Help desk can be VERY good.....but they can also be very bad (like
never respond at all).

 

LOL, P2P is sooooooo last week!

P2P is history, the smart people have an alternate avenue.

RJ out.

 

I use what works...and let the followers of fashion knock themselves out.

 

What pay servers have you tried? There are a lot of crappy ones out
there, but there are some very good ones too. The good ones, however,
are not so cheap.

For a so called "premium" news service (really good, but relatively
expensive), try:

http://www.easynews,com
http://www.giganews.com

These links are for comparisons of various news services:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net
http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/providers
http://www.newsreaders.com/newsfeeds/index.html

 

What pay servers have you tried? There are a lot of crappy ones out
there, but there are some very good ones too. The good ones, however,
are not so cheap.

For a so called "premium" news service (really good, but relatively
expensive), try:

http://www.easynews,com
http://www.giganews.com

These links are for comparisons of various news services:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net
http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/providers
http://www.newsreaders.com/newsfeeds/index.html

 

Stephen,

Please remove Teranews from your servers posting configuration, or if
you don't run it e-mail the admin and tell them to. Teranews rewrite
message IDs resulting in duplicate messages.

The Other Guy

 

Over the years I've used a number of different pay servers. I never
did run into one that was reliable and almost all had a real attitude
if you complained about the service being down/slow or not
propagating. Of the ones I tried I think SUPERNEWS was the worst for a
high and mighty attitude but I ran into troubles with THENEWSGROUPS
and USENET-ACCESS as well. Admittedly not the highest priced servers
but still… for a pay service I found them all to be very unreliable.
When your server won't propagate for more than a week at a time and
refuses to do anything about it (other than send a form letter saying
they're looking at the problem) it's time to cancel. TERANEWS and
BUBBANEWS are both unreliable too but no worse than the ones I
mentioned.

What really bothered me is that the services weren't being used for
binary images, spamming, cross-posting or anything more complicated
than simple text discussions. It's very upsetting when all of the
sudden you can't reply to a particularly irritating piece of
misinformation because you're pay server isn't bothering to provide
the most basic service.

 

Small ones. TV Programs..

 

The problem that I have found with limited trying of P2P is the
bandwidth over head. Take Bittorrent as an example. For every 1 Gig
you down load you seem to use 3 Gig of bandwidth. I basically stick
with news groups because of this reason..

 

www.octanews.com is the main one that I use as a pay server for every
thing. . Very good..