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Originally Posted by homealone
It isn't a 'whine', it is practical advice from someone who finds the NTL newsgroups inadequate for their purpose & has found an alternative.
The 'whining' is coming from people who can't accept that NTL do not consider newsgroups to be any more than a peripheral part of the service they provide.
In my opinion this won't change, so if you want decent newsgroup service, NTL isn't the place to get it - hence zinglebarb's advice....
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I thought the purpose of these forums was to air problems related to the ntl services and as such that is what i do on occasion, be it proxy problems or newsgroup problems.
When i signed up for ntl the newsgroups were a part of the service that i paid for and which i still pay for. Therefore if there is a problem which cannot be resolved by talking to some poorly paid and misinformed person in india i feel that this forum offers the last resort.
Zinglebarb does not offer advice he just touts for referral fees.
Ntl offers a perfectly acceptable newsgroups service which i find adequate for my use, it is only a month or so that this problem has been going on, it started with the inability to connect to the newsserver and after the intervention of someone on a ntl newsgroup this problem was solved, unfortunately the present propagation /completion problem then started up, in time someone will sort this and until then reminders of the problem on this forum are perfectly acceptable.
Whatever your views may be on ntl's policy re newsgroups it does not alter the fact that they offer the service as part of the service that i signed up for and pay for and as such it is perfectly acceptable for problems re the newsgroups to be aired in this forum.