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RHP, This was part of bulk email, which we managed to track. It would seem it was delayed for a few days and then bounced back to us. I resent all those that bounced back last night. Glad to see we have managed to get mail to you at last.

Bumpy (ntl trials team)

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Thanks DVS. I have always had the problem of slow newsgroups whether on the test or the old server. I always put it down to a bad service. I have recently signed up for Astraweb and am having the same problem. NTLs tech support gave me no help at all. Anyone know if an NTL fault could be to blame? MY PC has been rebuilt several times over the past year or so and i always have this problem.

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Seeing as no one has posted this yet:-

Just received an email, 06/02/04, that the News Server Trial is resuming and will run until Friday the 13th.

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Friday the 13th? Excellent.. ;)

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Thanks for placing the update. I can confirm the trial has resumed today and you should all have an email on it's way to you with all the details.

Bumpy (ntl trials team)

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Well hopefully the third time luck syndrome (it is third time?) will counter the Friday the 13th syndrome :D

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Where is my email :no: :no:
Had the email on the trial restart but still no info on the server address even after sending an email to the trials team and a follow up phone call.

Missing emails again !

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Sybex

All mails received yesterday and today have been responded too, apologies if you have not had this yet. If stilll not received by the end of today and you need any further information send me a PM. For the benefit of anyone of who has not got the server address, it is as follows:

newstest.ntli.net

Bumpy (ntl trials team

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Whats everyone think of it since the trial restarted?

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Seeing as you ask, it's worse than before the 2 week break to fix the problems with incomplete and missing posts IMHO.:(

Before the two week break the binary groups I use had about 50% incompletes.
After the break to fix the problem it was about 99% incompletes.:banghead:

Fast, stable service, but shame there's nothing much for me to download. :pp

I contacted the trials team about it a couple of days ago, but no improvement. I don't wish to criticise but I do wonder exactly what they did during the two week suspension.:confused:

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Bioboy, you should have received a mail from us today advising there have been some issues identified during the trial, and work has been done to rectify these. Can you send me a pm with the groups you are having problems with, so I can look at the completion rates on them now.

Bumpy (ntl trial team)

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Just curious who this server is aimed at? Its no good for people who want to use binaries (lack of any usefull groups) and theres already a text only server?

I say you give it a proper test with the old groups back on, the server is useless as it is, we still have to use claranews etc

see how it copes as a real newservice not this useless crap. I try and use it and theres not one good group on it... You want us to give a stress test but theres nothing on it worth looking twice at.

I'll stick to claranews and bittorent i suppose, you should want us on newsgroups rather than bt which uploads and costs you loads on bandwidth.

Unless the groups get put back on the service is still crap imho.

edit: just had a look on a few groups and about 95% of files incomplete

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I will try to take part in the 'stress test' , tomorrow, but I also have a suggestion re: assessing the completion thingy - could we pick a group, say

alt.binaries.e-book.flood

and report on number of headers, oldest header, etc - using the test server - and also any free/paid for accounts we have?

the most headers I am showing in this group is 12709 back to 12/01/04 - how are you guys measuring % completion?

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Less than 3% completion on alt.bin..multimedia.comedy, 21% on alt.bin..sounds.radio.bbc, similar stories on most other groups.
Still.. at least you can connect to the server so I supppose it some sort of improvement. :zzz:

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I have PM'd you. Not much improvement I'm afraid.:(