On 9/5/10 6:58 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 9/5/10 7:08 AM, Beverly Howard wrote: >> This is a test... I posted two replies this morning and neither has >> appeared on the forum. >> >> Beverly Howard > > This is apparently a general problem with GigaNews, starting today. > GigaNews not only hosts news.mozilla.org; but it also provides newsgroup > services outsourced from ISPs, including the ISP I use. I am seeing > excessive delays both with news.mozilla.org and with general newsgroups > (i.e., Usenet and alt.*). >
It took several exchanges of messages with GigaNews's support staff, but they finally realize that they have a latency problem. At first, they did not understand that I post directly to GigaNews and read directly from GigaNews, both for news.mozilla.org and for their general news server. Then, they thought I had a connection problem because my user ID and password are for the outsourced connection through my ISP and not through an individual account with GigaNews. All this reminds me of the run-around I get from a Web site when I try to tell them they are incorrectly sniffing for "Firefox" instead of "Gecko" and that they really should not sniff at all. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
