newsgroup availability

[Stijn Herreman]

On 19/08/2011 16:18, kennytm wrote:
> Timon Gehr<timon.gehr at gmx.ch>  wrote:
>> On 08/19/2011 03:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently,
>>> I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to
>>> deal with my communication).
>>>
>>> It seems to be happening daily...
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>
>> It has been the same for me.
>
> It's the same for everyone because it's a problem of the newsgroup server,
> not the client. I guess the server(s) needs more CPU running in parallel to
> reduce load.

Could it be the cause of frequent Thunderbird freezes? I can't tell 
because I only started using it for the newsgroup a few weeks ago.