rec.autos.simulators

Any advice on a good web-based or alternative source of news?  Now that
deja/google only have news reading without replying that's not an option.

tia

here's hoping for the best

If you don't mind paying, I've had good service from www.newsguy.com.  They
have several different levels of service available and keep posts for ages
compared to most others.

Jerry Morelock

Thanks - I might give it a try if the price is right, but it seems

been a mixed bag in my experience- sometimes great service and techs,
sometimes *incredibly bad*.  The problems of a large company I guess.

news
| service at least as good as a couple of pay services I've used--which
means
| that it's very, very good.  I don't understand why you're having problems

<snipped>
| Jerry Morelock
|
| > Just went from dial up to cable and love the speed. But a big problem
now-
| > the cable isp has really bad usenet service (the dial up was great for
<snipped again>

--
Don Burnette
D Burnette in N4

Some people do nothing wrong.
The problem is, they do nothing.
And THAT is wrong.

Why would it download some posts but not others?  That's the question.  Only

blows?  So far I've seen 2 people who seem to have no problems with it, but
their results are obviously different than mine.

You might want to reset your newsgroups and make sure you aren't filtering
anybody.  Also, check to make sure that you're downloading all the available
current messages.  You might not be downloading all the headers.

Jerry Morelock

"will" are you using OE? If so make sure you have the setting correct in
your account and also maybe you mihght have to delete all & restart? I
havent done this is so long I forget but someone can help you here!
Btw: I've had 2533 posts from RAS in the past 5 days.. Hope this will
help a little?
Thom_j.

<snipped>
| Thanks- I do have a lot of newsgroups to choose from, it's just that not
all
| the messages are coming through.  For example, I'm up to 5 responses in
the
| "Montoya Hype" thread from David Fisher without a sign of the post that
he's
| responding to.
|
| Why would it download some posts but not others?  That's the question.
Only

| blows?  So far I've seen 2 people who seem to have no problems with it,
but
| their results are obviously different than mine.

Many ISP (especially ones that cover wide areas) have several mirror
news server located in different places. However if the bandwidth
is not sufficient they might be not completely mirrored. You may try
to ask your ISP if that's the case and ask them for address of their
other news servers. If ISP support won't help, ask somebody who
has no problems with the same ISP what is the address/IP of the news
server they use. I had similar problems a while ago and have cured
it by switching to another mirror server.

Good luck,
Alex
(alexti)

News.CIS.DFN.DE

Thanks for the help everyone. Yep, using OE which always worked fine before.
Changed the settings to the new account and all and it works... kinda (as
I've described). I get a few messages but nowhere near the 2533 you've
gotten in the last 5 days. I'd be hard pressed to put a number on it but
surely less than a hundred or so per day in ras (and that's probably being
generous).  I don't have anyone killfiled (never have either) and checked it
to be sure (thanks for the idea, chainbreaker!).  I've got it set to
download 1000 headers at once, so it's not like there's an artificially low
number of post headers being downloaded.  And I've tried clicking the
'download next 1000 headers' too with no luck.

I'll try deleting the news server from OE and then reconfiguring it.  If
that doesn't work I'll just try using another news reader other than OE.
Might get lucky and get around the problem.  Can't think of much else to do.

thanks again for the advice. this is really frustrating.  if this doesnt fix
it I guess I'll try out one of the pay servers.

Google (old Deja)?