newsgroup availability

[Marco Leise]

Am 19.08.2011, 17:15 Uhr, schrieb Stijn Herreman  
<stijn.herreman at telenet.be>:

> 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.

You could use the web interface to the newsgroup when you see the lockup  
and check if that loads or displays an error message about some load factor