News server load becoming more and more an issue

[Andrea Fontana]

What about a new group on:
https://groups.google.com/


On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 09:01:12 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 08:54:16 UTC, filgood wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Not sure who looks after the news server that hosts the 
>> relevant D newsgroups, but over the last few weeks, the amount 
>> of "high load" messages has been increasing at a steady rate, 
>> to an extend that it is becoming a real nuisance to read the 
>> newsgroups via a classic newsreader like thunderbird (hence 
>> using the web forum interface for this message).
>>
>> Can someone please change the settings on the news server to 
>> solve this (or move to another server) ?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> fil
>
> There was a post from Andrei saying that they were looking into 
> it, but I feel your pain.
>
> Somehow the web interface appears to be more resilient to the 
> post failures, but my Thunderbird and Windows Live Email keep 
> complaining all the time. :(
>
> Which is somehow ironic, since I prefer native applications to 
> web based ones.