Yet another crash of Optusnews

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"Herman" wrote in message
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Why are people moaning about their provider on a Newsgroup?
There is nothing the other readers can do to help them, especially when
they are, say, from Europe so why bother them?
Complaints should be sent to your provider and if you are unhappy about
service provided, change providers. Should be easy (at least in the
Netherlands it is).

You'd have to go back to the start of the thread. Someone was looking for
a new ISP for the very reason stated by "Stretch" - bad service. Here in
Australia, we have several providers, but I've always found Bigpond to be
the best (I was also with Optus once-upon-a-time).

And now many of the Aussie ISP's aren't even providing newsgroup access
either. Your options are rather limited when your whole population is on 20
million people. 300 million people in the US or Europe gives your a lot more
buying choice.

I've been enjoying 'ac249''s series from NNAM Pensacola. but only about 50%
of his pictures are turning up, which is normal with Optus these days. Are
you getting a limited amount or the whole lot at bigpond?

Regards....Chris

"Chris D" wrote in message
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I've been enjoying 'ac249''s series from NNAM Pensacola. but only about
50% of his pictures are turning up, which is normal with Optus these days.
Are you getting a limited amount or the whole lot at bigpond?

It varies; some of his (assumption that ac249 is male) posts come through at
a later time of the day, so the sequence is out, but I think most of them
are coming through. I dare say that this problem would occur regardless of
your ISP or country.

Having been with Optus (and before that, MPX, who were bought-out by Optus),
I can say that Bogplod is far superior where delivery is concerned. They
may be more expensive, but that has to be weighed-up against not getting
what one wants.

Hi Guys,
I estimate that I've sent 375 photos through since 12/12 from a quick look
at my Sent Items folder. I'm sending them through in between working during
the day (GMT) and when I get fed up watching crap on the box or doing other
things in the evenings. There have been a couple of early morning ones when
I was watching my Band of Brothers Blu-Ray that I got for Xmas. Ah, those
quiet times to watch GREAT TV.
Cheers
Mike Allen
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"Chris D" wrote in message
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I've been enjoying 'ac249''s series from NNAM Pensacola. but only about
50% of his pictures are turning up, which is normal with Optus these
days. Are you getting a limited amount or the whole lot at bigpond?

It varies; some of his (assumption that ac249 is male) posts come through
at a later time of the day, so the sequence is out, but I think most of
them are coming through. I dare say that this problem would occur
regardless of your ISP or country.

Having been with Optus (and before that, MPX, who were bought-out by
Optus), I can say that Bogplod is far superior where delivery is
concerned. They may be more expensive, but that has to be weighed-up
against not getting what one wants.

"Chris D" wrote in message
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
...
"Herman" wrote in message
. home.nl...

Why are people moaning about their provider on a Newsgroup?
There is nothing the other readers can do to help them, especially when
they are, say, from Europe so why bother them?
Complaints should be sent to your provider and if you are unhappy about
service provided, change providers. Should be easy (at least in the
Netherlands it is).

You'd have to go back to the start of the thread. Someone was looking
for a new ISP for the very reason stated by "Stretch" - bad service.
Here in Australia, we have several providers, but I've always found
Bigpond to be the best (I was also with Optus once-upon-a-time).

And now many of the Aussie ISP's aren't even providing newsgroup access
either. Your options are rather limited when your whole population is on
20 million people. 300 million people in the US or Europe gives your a lot
more buying choice.

I've been enjoying 'ac249''s series from NNAM Pensacola. but only about
50% of his pictures are turning up, which is normal with Optus these days.
Are you getting a limited amount or the whole lot at bigpond?

Regards....Chris
We certainly do not get the lot on Bigpond, but it is better than nothing at
all!

Bob M

Just to let you know also, I've done my 'dodgy focussed' walkarounds of the
following from Pensacola so far) .
This is a rough list from my 'already posted' directory :

A-1H 25
AF-2S 11
A-6E 31
BFC-2 8
F2H 14
F3F-2 13
F4B-4 12
F4F-3 20
F4U-4 7
F6C 7
F7C-1 4
F7F-3 8
F8F-2P 15
F9F-2 2
F9F-6 9
F14D 29
F-4N 23
F-8 7
F-8A 19
FA-18A 22
FF-1 11
FJ-4 6
FM-2 1
Fokker DVII 3
JN-4 2
MF Fboat 5
NC-4 Fboat 5
N2C-2 1
Hanriot HD-1 2
Nieuport 28 3
PBY-5 2
PBY c/way 16
SB2U-2 15
Sopwith F.1 2
T38 4
Thomas Morse S.5 1

If you need any repeats (not them all please) let me know.

Cheers
Mike A
"Bob Merchant" wrote in message
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"Chris D" wrote in message
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"Herman" wrote in message
. home.nl...

Why are people moaning about their provider on a Newsgroup?
There is nothing the other readers can do to help them, especially when
they are, say, from Europe so why bother them?
Complaints should be sent to your provider and if you are unhappy about
service provided, change providers. Should be easy (at least in the
Netherlands it is).

You'd have to go back to the start of the thread. Someone was looking
for a new ISP for the very reason stated by "Stretch" - bad service.
Here in Australia, we have several providers, but I've always found
Bigpond to be the best (I was also with Optus once-upon-a-time).

And now many of the Aussie ISP's aren't even providing newsgroup access
either. Your options are rather limited when your whole population is on
20 million people. 300 million people in the US or Europe gives your a
lot more buying choice.

I've been enjoying 'ac249''s series from NNAM Pensacola. but only about
50% of his pictures are turning up, which is normal with Optus these
days. Are you getting a limited amount or the whole lot at bigpond?

Regards....Chris
We certainly do not get the lot on Bigpond, but it is better than nothing
at all!

Bob M