I haven't posted to Rec.crafts.glass for several years. One thing I don't understand is, why is there no real time posting? And, why does it seem like some people view new posts sooner than others? From the emails I've gotten, people were responding to my post long before I saw it show up on the net.
What is real time. When I post it's up a few seconds later. Delays are caused by particular servers taking longer to get something posted or to show what has been posted. Maybe.
Jack
Google is slow about adding posts to the viewable part of its archive. Check with your ISP; you might have a different way to read Usenet News that will give you better response times.
Posts go to servers, then appear seconds or minutes later. If you want realtime you need instant messenger.
You're reading and posting from the google archive. It's not meant to be real time, and probably never will be.
If you want something approaching real time (a few seconds for most of us), you need to get a newsreader (you probably already have one... it just needs to be configured) and in the "server" section, put "news.maui.net."
If your ISP's contracted news server (newsguy.com) isn't up to your expectations, there are several free text-only NNTP servers that seem to satisfy millions of users.
See there's what I mean. Mine takes hours to show up. All day even. But yours are up in seconds. Could it really be my isp? It sends everything else, like other board posts, email, etc right away.
What Steve Ackman said. Google is the slow link.
Jack
I think it'd be worth your while to do a bit of reading-up on how Usenet works. It was never intended to be anything near a real-time means of communication. There are no guarantees about when a message that you post to your news-server will be replicated to my news-server so that I can read it.
It may take hours. It may be that my news-server will decide to purge your message before I've even had a chance to read it. All bets are off.
You're apt to feel better sooner by learning how it works, than by fretting about why it isn't working the way you think it should.
Okay, well thanks for the explanation. I was curious because it didn't seem like it was like this before when I used the usenet. But that's been, at least three or four years and several hardrives and OS. I got a kick out of your suggestion that learning about how the usenet works might make me feel better. In fact, that would make me want to open a large vein.
Another factor that I have noticed is that various combinations of ISP, mail reader, and operating system (mine are Ticnet/Waymark, Outlook Express
6, and XP) produce different results. Messages that I post are noted as being unread almost instantly, apparently because somewhere in the software chain, it recognizes that what I post is coming back to me even though I haven't asked OE to look for group updates. On my wife's machine, (Mindspring, OE, 98) the availability is slower, apparently based on the server software going and looking at the news group server.
Good point Mike. A few weeks back I went through a 2-3 week period where my posts were only showing up on my computer. After a few weeks of no replies I did some research because not even *I* can piss off everybody in every newsgroup. For some reason my reader had quit posting beyond my computer. I had to delete the identity and re establish it.
Jack
is "delete the identity" a new fangled word for "whack 'em?" and start over?
Very funny, "not even *I* can piss off everybody"
bet I could do it!!
No comment.
Jack
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