NG access

I've gone onto Internal Fire for access.

Earlier use of Google groups always meant posts appeared hours or days later (& sometimes not at all). Meant that my posts appeared long after the conversation had moved on, & were probably unhelpful ...... or at the least, made me look a bit behind the times!

Post this morning via Internal Fire appeared within 10 mins of writing. You do need to log on etc, but that's a helpful security check anyway, especially in the light of Geoff's Anson post. Paul Evans is very much system-aware, with a strong professional internet/networking background, so is able to manage access security very closely.

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I remain completely satisfied with I just timed my last posting to the NG and it appeared in 2 minutes 35 seconds. It occasionally might take as long as 5 minutes, but never more.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

"J K Siddorn" wrote

We take a feed from them but the cron job runs every 15 minutes, I can always reduce that.

If enough people were using it I would take a direct feed, not worth the hassle at the moment.

Paul

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Internal Fire, Museum of Power, Wales

If this message appears then my old subscription to mailgate is still active. However I was told last night by a fellow club member that the subscrition details are now in Italian and, having checked, I see that the following note appears - "Subscription to this service is temporarily not available for users outside Italy. We apologise for the inconvenience" so that's no use then. Come on you computer/usenet/internet whizz kids won't someone post a simple jargon free guide to how to set up a usenet account, or even better point us at a simple web based news service like mailgate.

NHH

That's right, I keep an eye on Mailgate from time to time, but it's been like that for perhaps a year, ever since Mailgate re-appeared after crashing in flames in 2002

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

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