https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1211&p=17478#p17478
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Saturday, 08 January 2005, 08:09 AM


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I am quite familiar with the usenet news groups and I agree that those two news group run quite smoothly.  Still on that day, was when I had encountered spam that had subject line that when combined with what happened that day at the supermarket, well it started me down thet path that lead to that picture.

Tormentor, Hawktoey, I have seen both of your names in those newsgroups.  At first, I had planned to post that picture in both newsgroups.  It was not the spam that changed my mind, it was the poor service from the newsserver provided by my ISP.  Retention in those newsgroups on that server is so bad, that I run my own server.  I pull the news a couple of times a day, via a cron job and have it added to my server.  My server has a much longer retention in the groups that I follow.  Then there is the problem of completion.  Although, their completion and retention is much better in text only newsgroups.  Also from what I have heard, their completion and retention is also better in other newsgroups that I am not interested in.  Oh well <2 day often <1 day retention in Poser and Bryce while having months of retentions in some trash newsgroups.  I guess art is not high in their priorities.

The result of all this for my reading the groups, is that inspite of having my own private newsserver, I often only get to see only some of the articles in any given thread.  In fact there is one picture posted by Tormentor that I did not get to see, that based on the quoted text in the replies to that posting I am quite curious about.  Latter on, I may just look in the Album and try to locate the picture here and if any of the descriptions seem to match the quoted text.

The result of all the poor quality newsserver, for my not posting in the newsgroups is that I don't want it to seem that I ignore comments, expecially critical comments.  With the way that newsserver has been operating, it could make it seem that I had been doing just that, when in truth I had never seen the article.  So, for now at least, I don't feel comfortable posting there.

Pangor