[Info-vax] Google Groups unresponsive (was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?)

[Paul Sture]

In article <kkqt4c$ino$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> wrote:

> Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> >In article 
> ><be093b2a-366b-4706-bbd9-d4bb2ddec07d at cd3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
> > John Wallace <johnwallace4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> Wrt Google Groups being slow: the behaviour I'm seeing, still using
> >> the old Google Groups not the new unimproved one, is that if I don't
> >> get a response quickly, there probably won't be a response in a
> >> sensible timeframe, but if I repeat the same request (having waited a
> >> second or two) it'll usually respond within a sensible timeframe. I
> >> wasn't sure whether this was possibly packet loss at my ISP (but I
> >> don't see any similar problem anywhere else) or bad load balancing at
> >> Google Groups. I now vote for bad load balancing.
> 
> >Yes, I was using the old Google Groups.  I did get a response by trying 
> 
> I'm happy with http://aioe.org/ + http://www.nndev.org/

Thanks but I was trying to use Google Groups for searching old messages, 
not for reading and posting.

FWIW I am using the http://eternal-september.org news server and 
MT-NewsWatcher for reading and posting.  The latter doesn't cope very 
well with UTF but it's a nice multi-windowed news reader that I am 
comfortable with.

I also use leafnode, a lightweight news server which serves only the 
groups you are interested in.  This means that I don't need to worry 
about slow news services (my previous provider throttled news groups at 
64Kb/s) and if I am somewhere where port 119 is blocked, I can ssh into 
it and use a command line news reader.

-- 
Paul Sture