Requesting newsgroups to be added?
 

Is there a procedure for asking Virgin to carry a specific newsgroup on their servers, and has anyone asked with any success?
I notice they carry alt.binaries.games.xbox but would like them to carry alt.binaries.games.xbox360.
Any advice?
Cheers.

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They won't add any new binary groups to the server. they haven't done for about 4 or 5 years now.

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Thanks Paul. Shame that. Looks like I'm still going to the local market then!

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:D

The binary server isn't much use anyway with 3 days retention and big incompletes. others use a dedicated server like astraweb. usenetmonster. giganews. usenet-news.net.

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I don't know where you got 3 days from? I've pulled down binaries 7+ days after their appearance. And to be fair, a weeks retention is reasonable considering its a free service.

But in reply to the OP NTL/VM are more likely to cut more groups than add, in the same way they took away alt.binaries.boneless, tho last I heard ex-Telewest still have access to that one :(

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so you would rather do the car boot thing than subscribe to a good news provider??????? By the time you lined the pockets of some scamp in one afternoon could prob afford you an unlimited service from a premium provider. The best is Giganews but its also the dearest

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Virgin support
Usenet Guru

Re: Requesting newsgroups to be added?
 

Blimey, you've really got something against NTL, haven't you? What's the reason behind this hatred towards them? Are you a disgruntled ex-employee, or did you fail an interview with them or something?

As for the OP, I've got no idea what processes are in place, because I subscribe to a Usenet provider. As already said, Giganews is the best but most expensive, but even with them, you can have the 25Gb service for $13 p/month which is only about £7 in real money. Much better to pay them than to pay some scrote at a car boot sale who is just using newsgroups himself anyway.

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That`s wrong. Retention is ten days and has been for a long time (I`m assuming that everyone on VM has access to the NTL servers by now?) The 3 day retention was (according to the people complaining on the VM feedback newsgroup a while back) was what the BY people were getting.

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Excuse me? I'm quoting what was said in the support groups, and you accuse me of having hatred? is everyone on drugs now?! :td:

So you don't know?

---------- Post added at 10:30 ---------- Previous post was at 10:29 ----------

Ok you're right and support and the users are wrong. fair enough.

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UNS is better value for money than GigaNews, half the price for 18 days less retention.

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Ok you're right and support and the users are wrong. fair enough.[/quote]

Most of the people on support wouldn`t know what Usenet and Newsgroups are let alone what retentions is. I read the support groups and NTL users do not say that retention is 3 days. If you want to confirm what I say go to the feedback group and ask Alex Brown. He was the one who used to pass on complaints to Highwinds late last year and early this year when there were lots of completion problems.

Anyway, just thought I`d do a quick double check (things could have changed recently:-)) and you can still d/l binaries from the 15th.

Re: Requesting newsgroups to be added?
 

Do ex-TW have access to the NTL servers now?

If so what's the address?

Ta

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Not sure. Give it a try - news.ntlworld.com

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Yeah, I suppose you're right. I've only just got pc after 2 year gap. Used to use Usenetserver, and after early problems they became really quite reliable.