GoogleGroups Acting Hinky?

All day yesterday Google Groups showed the "newest" messages as being
more than 24 hours old. Today there are newer messages showing up,
but messages are not being uploaded/updated in a timely fashion.
Messages I posted 15 minutes ago have still not appeared. (Normally
this occurs almost instantly.)

Worse, messages that I have already read are appearing again as UN-
read. Not that I'll be able to see your reply for a while, but is
anyone else noticing this?

Can anyone recommend any other web-based newsgroup portals? I'm
growing weary of Google's eternal attempts at reinventing the wheel.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 26 Apr 2007 07:39:24 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote in .com:

Can anyone recommend any other web-based newsgroup portals? I'm
growing weary of Google's eternal attempts at reinventing the wheel.

I've paid for newsgroups for a long time now and used
Free Agent, then Agent to read them.

The cost for text-only access is on par with a subscription
to a magazine.

I've used Newsguy, Astraweb, and Supernews. There
are lots of other news service providers out the

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.p...news_providers

Marty
--
Big-8 newsgroups: humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.*
See http://www.big-8.org for info on how to add or remove newsgroups.

On 4/26/2007 10:39:21 AM, Jay Honeck wrote:

Can anyone recommend any other web-based newsgroup portals?

Why does it have to be web-based? Can't you take up Martin's offer of free
access to his Usenet servers?

--
Peter

On 4/26/2007 11:42:00 AM, "Peter R." wrote:

Can't you take up Martin's offer of free
access to his Usenet servers?

To clarify, Martin Hotze's offer...

I know you two are newsgroup nemeses, but free and reliable is an offer that
you are seeking and he provides.

--
Peter

Peter R. schrieb:


I know you two are newsgroup nemeses, but [...]

well, at least we both agree to disagree. :-)

regarding my usenet access offer: to each his own. Take it and use it or
leave it.

But I am interested in which groups you all are subscribed (I want to
get a bigger picture and see which groups might be worth adding.).

#m
--
I am not a terrorist http://www.casualdisobedience.com/

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:13:27 +0200, Martin Hotze
wrote in :

regarding my usenet access offer: to each his own. Take it and use it or
leave it.

But I am interested in which groups you all are subscribed (I want to
get a bigger picture and see which groups might be worth adding.).

Perhaps it is the anonymity provided by GoogleGroups, and the relative
inability of tracking who posts what to which newsgroups that makes
GoogleGroups so attractive to certain individuals. Or perhaps it's
GoogleGroup's inferior web-based user interface, and the lack of
necessity to configure the IP address of the nnpt server that some
desire.

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:37:25 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote in :

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:13:27 +0200, Martin Hotze
wrote in :

regarding my usenet access offer: to each his own. Take it and use it or
leave it.

But I am interested in which groups you all are subscribed (I want to
get a bigger picture and see which groups might be worth adding.).

Perhaps it is the anonymity provided by GoogleGroups, and the relative
inability of tracking who posts what to which newsgroups that makes
GoogleGroups so attractive to certain individuals. Or perhaps it's
GoogleGroup's inferior web-based user interface, and the lack of
necessity to configure the IP address of the nnpt server that some
desire.

I love Google.

I'm grateful that they've preserved and augmented the deja archives.

I probably google newsgroups every day, if not six or eight times
a day.

I read and post through a news service provider using a Real Newsreader
(GARNA!) because that is so much more satisfying to me.

I understand that other people have different tastes and opinions ...

Marty
--
Big-8 newsgroups: humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.*
See http://www.big-8.org for info on how to add or remove newsgroups.

Can anyone recommend any other web-based newsgroup portals? I'm
growing weary of Google's eternal attempts at reinventing the wheel.

I have user a few GigaNews, Supernews, and now Newsreader.com

I am most happy with Newsreader.com and get 30Gb per month for $9.95/mo

It has the ability to connect an external reader with 10 concurrent
connections for speedy binary downloads, as well as a handy web interface
for times when away from your Agent or Outlook.

--
Mike Flyin'8
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
http://flying.4alexanders.com

wrote:
Can anyone recommend any other web-based newsgroup portals? I'm
growing weary of Google's eternal attempts at reinventing the wheel.

I have user a few GigaNews, Supernews, and now Newsreader.com

I am most happy with Newsreader.com and get 30Gb per month for
$9.95/mo

It has the ability to connect an external reader with 10 concurrent
connections for speedy binary downloads, as well as a handy web
interface for times when away from your Agent or Outlook.

And if you don't care about the bianary newsgroups you can get supernews
text only with a 3GB/month limit (which I have never hit) for $42.99/year.

On Apr 26, 10:39 am, Jay Honeck wrote:
All day yesterday Google Groups showed the "newest" messages as being
more than 24 hours old. Today there are newer messages showing up,
but messages are not being uploaded/updated in a timely fashion.
Messages I posted 15 minutes ago have still not appeared. (Normally
this occurs almost instantly.)

Worse, messages that I have already read are appearing again as UN-
read. Not that I'll be able to see your reply for a while, but is
anyone else noticing this?

Can anyone recommend any other web-based newsgroup portals? I'm
growing weary of Google's eternal attempts at reinventing the wheel.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay,

I noticed that same thing as well . . . and I have also wondered why
google keeps seeming to try to fix something that I as far as I could
tell, wasn't broken. I look to hearing some of the replies you get to
you question.

Take care . . . and blue skies to all

John