New Virginmedia Newsgroups [Archive]

harveyvan

17-02-2007, 22:07

Anybody been following the fun?

Merging the in-house newsgroups isn't turning out to be one of the new company's finest hours.

utt

17-02-2007, 22:09

Especially as they are 2 new newsgroups and no merging has taken place.

harveyvan

17-02-2007, 22:18

Not according to the mods: they've said that we're all one happy family now -- that's a direct quote. The old hierarchies are now seen as legacy.

Apparently the launch of a measly 2-group hierarchy was carefully judged; it appears that they and their colleagues agree that the change is going really quite well.

deathball

17-02-2007, 22:18

How do you get in to a newsgroup?

Illuminist

17-02-2007, 23:16

..

janipewter

17-02-2007, 23:21

How do you get in to a newsgroup?

I'd like to know too.

chamoan

18-02-2007, 01:02

Any news or links with info on this merge? im mainly interested to see if there completion rates improve (as opposed to Blueyonders awful ones) and 3 days retention is any better?

chamoan.

Rik

18-02-2007, 01:05

You want to experience newsgroups as they are meant to be intended?

My advice sign up with the Usenet Masters www.giganews.com (http://www.giganews.com)

Do we all expect the newsgroups to get THAT MUCH BETTER now its Virgin Media?
ISP Newsgroups = Pile of Steaming Dog Pooh!!

chamoan

18-02-2007, 01:22

You mean i shouldnt expect 100days retention, 99%+ completion rates on my ISP news acces :Yikes:, ok ill settle for 99 days lol.

Horace

18-02-2007, 04:22

You want to experience newsgroups as they are meant to be intended?

My advice sign up with the Usenet Masters www.giganews.com (http://www.giganews.com)

Do we all expect the newsgroups to get THAT MUCH BETTER now its Virgin Media?
ISP Newsgroups = Pile of Steaming Dog Pooh!!

Jesus.. They were talking about the Virginmedia.* newsgroups, not the nntp server and as far as how usenet was intended to be used, usenet was never meant to store binary files. Google's (ex- Deja News) usenet archive and a couple of text only usenet servers are probably as close as it gets to how it was "meant to be intended".

NoKnowledge

18-02-2007, 05:18

How do you get in to a newsgroup?

Never mind how you get into newsgroups. What are newsgroups?

Don't say news, as in BBC News, Sky news.

Edit > Answered my own Q by good ol' Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups So it's a discussion group and not a newsgroup as it is called.

Toto

18-02-2007, 09:29

You want to experience newsgroups as they are meant to be intended?

My advice sign up with the Usenet Masters www.giganews.com (http://www.giganews.com)

Do we all expect the newsgroups to get THAT MUCH BETTER now its Virgin Media?
ISP Newsgroups = Pile of Steaming Dog Pooh!!

:rolleyes:

The orginal post was talking about the specific ntl / blueyonder news groups. not USENET service.

FYI for those wanting to look at those groups, you need to be a Virginmedia Internet customer.

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Any news or links with info on this merge? im mainly interested to see if there completion rates improve (as opposed to Blueyonders awful ones) and 3 days retention is any better?

chamoan.

For that to happen they need to move to the ntl model, which is currently outsourced. I'm not sure its high on the list of priorities right now.