[aklug] Re: free news group access?

I think it did, back before ACS/ATU finished taking over Internet Alaska.
On Nov 8, 2012 11:19 AM, "Kevin Miller" <atftb2@alaska.net> wrote:

> On 11/08/2012 06:05 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Kevin Miller<atftb2@alaska.net> wrote:
>>
>>> They used to contract with one of the big name news servers, and just
>>> alias
>>> it in DNS. Now it appears to be w/in their own IP range. But then again
>>> most of the Akamai servers I hit are w/in that range too so it may just
>>> be a
>>> partnering arrangement...
>>>
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, from ~2000 to October 2012, there's been no third
>> party running ACS caching servers. What Tom described is exactly how
>> it's been working.
>>
>
> Could be. I just remember a long time ago doing a reverse nslookup on the
> address and it resolved elsewhere than alaska.net/acsalaska.net. I
> wouldn't have thought it was 12 years ago but time flies. I do remember
> the annoyance when they changed of my feed being way out of sync on all the
> news groups I followed since all the reference indexes were different.
>
> FWIW, I mentioned yesterday that I'd posted to alt.binaries.picures.**woodworking
> a few days ago and it never showed up. It still hasn't. But last night I
> posted again. The photos are less that 50 kb each. The original post had
> three photos attached. I made two posts last night - the first had one
> photo and the 2nd had two photos. Today, (on GCI's newsfeed) I see my 2nd
> post from last night and some replies to it, but not the first post.
>
> When my posts do turn up on ACS's news server it's usually hours after the
> fact. I don't know why they don't appear immediately. Actually, I think
> that's the same behavior on GCI as well.
>
> Long story short, it may behoove the OP to pony up the nominal cost for a
> supernews feed, depending on his ISP...
>
> ...Kevin
> --
> Kevin Miller
> Juneau, Alaska
> http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
> "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."
> - Lawrence Summers
> ---------
> To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
>
>

---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Thu Nov 8 17:53:27 2012