Posted by John Hosking on 03/08/07 23:47

patrick j wrote:

> Hello John
>
> I don't know if you can read this, but what you are reporting is very
> weird. There's nothing I can think of about my posts which would cause
> news.bluewin.ch to refuse to serve them.

Well, I suspect Bluewin just has an over-aggressive spam filter, and
your posts usually get caught up with the other suspects. I never see
the MI6 conspiracy posts, Heidi's posts with FAQ for, um, whatever group
she posts FAQs for, and some of the other spam never makes it to me.
However sometimes there is a delay (stretching as far as never) for some
individual posts at certain times (around Christmas was bad), I do see
*some* spam, and I do get to see some of your posts (mostly they're your
replies though, not your OPs). luewin deigned to show me your "Matching
colours between a .png and background" posts, for example.
>
> I'm jolly glad allnews.readfreenews.net hasn't the same problem :)

Yes, me too. It's how I'm seeing this last post of yours.

> I use news.individual.net and I find it to be excellent. It is so cheap it
> might as well be free, but it is extremely reliable.

It just bugs me that I have a "free" newsserver already. I shouldn't
*need* to pay money. I shouldn't *need* to use a free newsserver either.
Today is "Grumpy and Whiny Day, isn't it?

>
> You might be interested in having a look at news.individual.net.

Thanks, looking at it now.

Cheers

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