I've just tried the latest Agent - works in a similar way to Grabit though more complicated in my view. It also locks up on downloading headers from certain groups. I suppose we just have to wait until those headers expire and are purged - that may not take so long on VM with their short retention but I may have to wait >1 year for Demon :-)
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Originally Posted by donut
I don't think there anything really to be done. Could try the Beta of the new Grabit (buggy as hell I'd reckon) or see if VM can put any pressure on Highwinds (which I'd doubt as there's nothing to fix apart from the change in the way headers are handled or published). Anyone any ideas?  |
You could try a paid-for news service - at least then you can try to get service direct from them. Having said that I've not found Demon responsive as I don't (can't!) use News Rover - their preferred client. The good thing about Demon is that you can connect via SSL on port 80 so it doesn't look like NNTP traffic to VM. You can also flick to their servers in the US when problems like this occur in EU - it was useful recently when the EU connections went really slow for weeks.
I'm tempted to try Giganews and their client Mimo.