I suspect these lists are simply to big for the newsgroup software to operate.
The newsgroup software has not been maintained since 2001, and is written in.. special way. We have no real plans on doing anything with it. If it works, great. If not.. sorry. -Hannes On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Alan Rider <[email protected]> wrote: > The newsgroups have been inoperative for me, perhaps for a year now. I > frequently used them for perhaps 5 years and contributed often. > > I'm aware of the mail list; but, find it to be inconvenient for my workflow. > > These simply time out whenever I ask to fetch messages. > php.general > php.pear.general > > Al........... > > > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
