Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Rod wrote:
Earlier today I wrote (and posted) the post below. Unfortunately that
attempt failed - probably because of the very subject of the post! So,
as it seemed to be bad all day, I am still interested to know the
answer. Apologies if by some magic my original post also makes it here
eventually.

original post

I seem to be getting loads and loads of problems with n.i.n. today -
keeps timing out and failing to connect, etc. I have even (drum roll...)
rebooted my machine today in an effort to avoid/correct problems!

Is this widespread? Or am I suffering on my own? (Or - can I wait while
they sort it out or do I have to go off and find out what is wrong here?
:-) )

Some ISPs are blocking all newsgroup access at some times of the day to
restrict usage. Seems strange given how little data text based ones use -
but this isn't the case with binaries. I've got 3 different news suppliers
here and they're all blocked when this happens. They seem not to be doing
it to all their customers at the same time either - just to confuse.

How exceedingly odd. My initial thought is that it is some form of
proection against avalanches of spam rather than reducing bandwidth
usage. But I try never to make assumptions regarding the ways of ISPs.

But I have noticed over the past days, maybe weeks, that there have been
much worse propagation delays from other ISPs than I had been used to.
Perhaps down to the same cause. (This is on a "how it feels" basis - no
proper analysis done!)

--
Rod

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