ex-blueyonder newsgroup access - Page 3

DABhand · 06-07-2007, 03:54

Well I know people havent given the thumbs up but Be im going for, the exchange is basically down the road as such.

trixxx · 06-07-2007, 09:52

anybody still finding all binaries are incomplete? this is almost two week.....ggggrrrrrrr anybody know when this will be fixed?

DABhand · 06-07-2007, 10:54

Should have read the whole thread trixxx your answer is in there.

graham1332 · 06-07-2007, 12:52

Trixxx ,,, it went ok for a couple of hours but back to normal ,,,,, a load of **** ,,,, thats VM FOR YOU ,,,,, but i dont think they will ever get it right , but never mind , i am looking around now for a better service , i think everyone should do it ,,,, when people ask me about VM . I tell them not to bother because the service is crap ,,,,,,, just have a look around on the forums ,, you will get the answer you are looking for

leebowles · 06-07-2007, 17:40

Hi guys, im a newbie to this group, but whilst reading and having exactly the same problems, i like most of you rang vm, now they told me that service was running fine or will be fine within 24/48 hours (news server that is) of course this was last friday lol...but ill hang on, see wat happens, saves me spending extra for usenet etc wen this problem might disapeer within a few day

DABhand · 06-07-2007, 21:55

As taken from VM staff on support group.

"Hi All,

For your information maintenance has been scheduled for Monday morning
at 8:00am on the binary news platform news.blueyonder.co.uk. This will
appear on the status page shortly. The work is to reinstate the storage
that was lost over a week ago due to a double disk failure in an array.
There will be a period of approximately 15 minutes where
news.blueyonder.co.uk will be completely inaccessible. As a result of
this work around 50% of the articles will be lost and for 12 hours or so
after the maintenance we will only be using 50% of the storage until new
news spools are generated. Once completed new articles will be written
to all of the storage and normal retention levels should be established
in the following days after.

We have also established new peers to improve article completion
although this wont be particularly evident until the storage work takes
place on Monday."

Richy99 · 09-07-2007, 09:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by DABhand

Its really that bad, someone should tell the VM bigwigs the main reason why most people went with TW,NTL etc in the first place, was for the unmetered usenet access.

really? how many people pick an isp based on usenet servers?

graham1332 · 09-07-2007, 13:12

DaBhand ,,,, how long did it say it was going to be before everything is back to normal , mind you whats normal with vm , and which monday did they mean ? you can never tell with Vm ..... they tell lies

julie_152 · 17-11-2007, 12:38

I ceased being a blueyonder (now Virgin) broadband subscriber today, and failed to access "news.blueyonder.co.uk" newsgroups today. I have the newsgroups on a disk, but the toolbar is telling me that "access is denied" as I am not a "recognised as an authorised user of the system". I am now with Sky broadband, but do not want to lose access to the blueyonder newsgroup s - is there any way around this for me?

Julie

Richy99 · 17-11-2007, 15:18

no

you can only access the news server from a VM IP range

The Jackal · 17-11-2007, 22:52

I'm ex telewest so does that mean I can't access NTLs news server ?

telnet news.cable.ntlworld.com 119
Trying 62.253.170.163...
Connected to news.ntli.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
502 Permission Denied - Permission Denied -- http://www.highwinds-software.com/ (Tornado v1.0.6.380)
Connection closed by foreign host.

Whereas

telnet news.blueyonder.co.uk 119
Trying 194.117.143.37...
Connected to news.blueyonder.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Welcome to the blueyonder binary Usenet server (Tornado v1.0.6)

julie_152 · 18-11-2007, 13:55

Hi,
I don't understand, am I meant to put "telnet news.blueyonder.co.uk" in the "server name" field, and "119" in the "port" field? I did this and I still cannot download newsgroups using Xnews.Or am I being dumb???

Julie

Richy99 · 19-11-2007, 08:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

I'm ex telewest so does that mean I can't access NTLs news server ?

correct

---------- Post added at 09:30 ---------- Previous post was at 09:29 ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by julie_152

Hi,
I don't understand, am I meant to put "telnet news.blueyonder.co.uk" in the "server name" field, and "119" in the "port" field? I did this and I still cannot download newsgroups using Xnews.Or am I being dumb???

Julie

you cannot use the newsgroups if you are not with VM anymore