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Old 13-11-2006, 20:25   #17
tony
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Re: newsgroups completion rate

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Originally Posted by homealone View Post
Unfortunately the way it is phrased is the clue, they offer 'access to newsgroups', but make no promises about completion or which groups are carried. IIRC there was even talk of restricting access to text groups only & not peering with binary groups, at all.

NTL newsgroup access has always been a very low priority service, and I can't see that changing - not for the better, anyway
A while back they upgraded or outsourced the news server and also cut the amount of binary groups, this enabled a reasonable service for those that used the few binary groups supported, there was a text only news server for a short while but this went when the upgrade happened.
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