On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Majdi Abbas wrote:
Jon, I recall some reported problems along those lines. That even without binaries, they were running out of overhead. Given that USENET volume tends to grow, I'm betting that it would require a lot more capacity now.
We were customers up until some months before they folded...and even though we canceled about the same time they tried to "jack up" the monthly rates (I think our take it or leave us rate increase was 3x), we were kept on their mailing lists...so we kept getting notifications from them. "Sorry guys, we're going out of business. Oh wait, no we're not. Hmm...yeah, we are." IIRC, we were getting regular complaints from a handful of users about incomplete multipart posts and groups missing articles...I know, different versions of the same problem. We were also busting at the seams of our drive space and chose to outsource rather than build an even bigger server. AFAIK, we still have one or more dishes and several receivers kicking around somewhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________