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
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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

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

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

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

Jay Honeck wrote:
Can anyone recommend any other web-based newsgroup portals?

Sorry, no. Use a real newsreader. I second the recommendations to
either 1) try out Martin Hotze's offer or 2) get a "text-only" or low-
volume account from one of the commercial news services.

Real newsreaders have been under continuous development since about 1981;
Web "newsreaders" have been under intermittent development since about
1995 or so. It shows.

Matt Roberds

Sorry, no. Use a real newsreader.

I used a newsreader for years (and still could, on my home ISP,
Mediacom cable), but our hotel ISP is Qwest DSL, and they charge extra
for newsgroup access. Since I really can't justify paying extra hotel
money just to surf the newsgroups, I am forced to "get by" with
GoogleGroups.

And, to be honest, Google is an excellent way to access the 'groups,
usually. They just can't seem to leave well enough alone, and are
continually screwing up what is already a nearly flawless interface.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"



I second the recommendations to
either 1) try out Martin Hotze's offer or 2) get a "text-only" or low-
volume account from one of the commercial news services.

Real newsreaders have been under continuous development since about 1981;
Web "newsreaders" have been under intermittent development since about
1995 or so. It shows.

Matt Roberds

On 4/26/2007 9:45:21 PM, Jay Honeck wrote:

I used a newsreader for years (and still could, on my home ISP,
Mediacom cable), but our hotel ISP is Qwest DSL, and they charge extra
for newsgroup access. Since I really can't justify paying extra hotel
money just to surf the newsgroups, I am forced to "get by" with
GoogleGroups.

WTF, Jay. Why did you ignore my post and selectively snip the other post that
recommended going with the free news service offered by one of this group's
own? Why are you whining about the extra cost of your ISP's newsgroup service
when there are free alternatives to both your own ISP's version and Google's
flaky service? Why is it that every six months or so you have to post about
your miserable experiences with Google's groups and then decline every bit of
advice suggesting quite capable and free alternatives?


--
Peter