Assuming that all email addresses are correct, unlike an ISP people could move without NIN being informed.
As it was, my email server didn't receive the said email until after I posted the original message - commenting with hindsight is great, isn't it ?...
Tell me about it....
Without the aid of a
I'm just thankful that a member of staff whilst I was at my local College of Further Education found it strange that there was someone who couldn't cope with the written theory work but was top of the class when given a practical task in the workshop and had the gumption to make some enquiries and that he found out that one of the (then) top experts in this 'thing' called Dyslexia lived in the same county and could be contacted via the county hall education dept.
You might have noticed that sometimes not only does my grammar, punctuation and spelling go askew but I also miss whole words out or they are in the wrong order, how ever careful I am at checking before sending the message.
Yes, but they do learn how to change channels, adjust the brightness or perhaps use Teletext, that was what I was trying to point out.
In view of what you have said above please don't take offence at how I was trying to make my point, I DO know what you probably went though.
I'm not sensitive about the subject so no offence taken. There are posters older than me here who went through much worse at school than I did.
(kim)
The ISP I use at work (EasyNet) has stopped offering it altogether.
Mark Thornton
My ISP, Plusnet, still provides a pretty good Usenet service, including a good binary service. It has had a few hiccoughs over the past year since it suffered from doing upgrades to improve binaries and, as a result, got a lot of new users overloading their news system. But their latest upgrade, and the imposition of download limits, is providing a good service.
Jim.
But their latest upgrade, and the
That's a contradiction in terms.
Most of them might as well, the service is lousy (with some exceptions).
The service tends to be lousy due to the service provider not spending the required money / resources on their NNTP servers [1], which are worked very intensely, AIUI web forums cost a lot less to host and maintain and thus ISP's prefer to encourage their use for discussion rather than the likes of Usenet.
[1] that is why many ISP's out source newsgroup access to specialist NNTP suppliers such as SuperNews.
My ISP, Intergate, apparently contracts out the news to Supernews. Pretty good, even though I do use n.i.n by preference. But through my ISP I can get binaries, which I can't on n.i.n. So I occasionally use both.
":::Jerry::::" wrote
Giganews in the case of my ISP, but the service is capped & restricted in other ways, as well as being slow and unusable at times. Thanks goodness I still have free access to news.theplanet.net - but for how much longer I wonder?
John.
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