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news server does not respond

От
Markus Schiltknecht
Дата:
Hi,

what's up with the news server? My reader can't connect since yesterday 
evening (MESZ, UTC+2). Telnetting gives:

markus@macbook:~$ telnet news.postgresql.org nntp
Trying 200.46.204.72...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

A note about my current NNTP experience: I'm just about to switch back 
to emails again because it seems more convenient to have it all in one 
IMAP account with multiple folders. Especially when hopping between 
different machines I've noticed it's better to use IMAP, which stores 
what I have read on the server. The downside of course is having all the 
mails on the server and having huge IMAP folders (i.e. for -hackers).

Is there something that stores flags (seen, responded, important, etc..) 
for newsgroups on the server? Probably a NNTP to IMAP gateway, that 
would at least solve problem no. 1 above...

Regards

Markus


Re: news server does not respond

От
Markus Schiltknecht
Дата:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Fixed, sorry for delay ...

Good, thank you. But I've already switched back to IMAP, with subfolders 
and automatic filtering. Has the advantage of being available from any 
IMAP capable client _and_ saving the flags.

Looks like the news server is not used that much, if I was the only one 
complaining...

Regards

Markus



Re: news server does not respond

От
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Дата:
Markus Schiltknecht wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> Fixed, sorry for delay ...
> 
> Good, thank you. But I've already switched back to IMAP, with subfolders 
> and automatic filtering. Has the advantage of being available from any 
> IMAP capable client _and_ saving the flags.
> 
> Looks like the news server is not used that much, if I was the only one 
> complaining...

Uhm, I am using it as well and I noticed a few others complaining as 
well on IRC. All the better that it is back in action :)

regards,
Lukas


Re: news server does not respond

От
Christopher Browne
Дата:
After a long battle with technology, Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org>, an earthling, wrote:
> Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
>
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> Fixed, sorry for delay ...
>> Good, thank you. But I've already switched back to IMAP, with
>> subfolders and automatic filtering. Has the advantage of being
>> available from any IMAP capable client _and_ saving the flags.
>> Looks like the news server is not used that much, if I was the only
>> one complaining...
>
> Uhm, I am using it as well and I noticed a few others complaining as
> well on IRC. All the better that it is back in action :)

Yeah, and you can't complain when you're cut off...
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Re: news server does not respond

От
Markus Schiltknecht
Дата:
Christopher Browne wrote:
> Yeah, and you can't complain when you're cut off...

:-)  yeah, known problem...  I used gmane to track the list, but...

Regards

Markus