Re: Datamas.de?

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:52:37 +0000, Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Did it get sorted?
>
>It did, the email came the following day and as you found it wouldn't
>immediately connect but I left it alone for a couple of hours and it
>finally did.  It seems to have excellent completion, marginally better
>than any other free server, and > 2 months retention.  It sometimes hangs
>fire on connection but gets there in the end.

I haven't noticed that. (It's Datemas that currently tends to hang for a
while before delivering headers.) Retention is great; the number of groups
carried is small, but so far I've not noticed the absence of anything that
matters to me. 

>Comparative stats for 28 days: 
>
><fixed pitch>
>alt.fan.cecil-adams
>         Merge     IOL     NIN     APN     NDD     ALB     AIO     MOZ
>Total    13435   13343   13311   13434   13288   13295   10898   13297
>Avg.       480     477     475     480     475     475     389     475
>                 99.32%  99.08%  99.99%  98.91%  98.96%  81.12%  98.97%
>
>IOL is my ISP's server
>NIN is news.individual.net    €10 per year
>APN is rebadged Easynews    $2.95 per month
>NDD is news.datemas.de    free
>ALB is news.albasani.net    free
>AIO is news.aioe.org    free
>MOZ is news.motzarella.org    free
>Merge is all of them merged together.

I don't know how you're getting these stats (Hamster?) but they seem to
suggest that (a) there's no point in shelling out $2.95 per month unless
APN
is supplying required binaries and (b) aioe is in trouble. 

I get the feeling that the difference between MOZ and Merge is entirely
spam. 

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