"Clot" wrote in message
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Clot wrote:
Spamlet wrote:
Appols to those I began corresponding with in threads; 'OT Polarised
light'; 'advice on odd tap problem'; 'Silicon bead tools'. Virgin
posted my first few comments and then failed on the follow up
replies...
It appears from checking virgin media's virginmedia.support.usenet,
that there may be a problem with their farmed-out 'Highwinds' server,
which is not reliably posting messages to uk.d-i-y.

I've changed to their Liverpool based text.news... server, which I
am told is more reliable, and hope that will cure the problem for
future threads, but that leaves me with a backlog of sent messages
that didn't get through, which I now don't know how to resend so that
they end up in the right places in the various threads.

Have others here been having problems like this?

(Assuming I can now engage in a proper too and fro... fingers
crossed!)

I too have been having the same problem with VigrnMedia and have
moved on to the text server route since when I don't think I've had a
problem.

Bad form, I know. Still, it seems to have taken close to two hours for the
last post to get through.
Cheers to you both: I'm back at last!

Yes I did change to the text.news.virginmedia.com server, but I made a few
mistakes:
Firstly, I just changed the server address in the existing subscription - in
order to minimise the redoing of all my groups.
This was a mistake because it duplicated all the messages as the two servers
use different numbering (of course dumbo...).
Even then, I found that my messages did not seem to be appearing, and then I
got error messages saying headers downloaded were no longer on the server.
Only just sussed that I needed to change my 'email address' as well before I
was recognised as different account. Things are a lot more fiddly than they
appear!

Hopefully things will now settle for a while before the next upheaval!

Regards,

S