it seems that news.digitalmars.com does not work correctly

[BCS]

to quote the people who make my NG reader:

> Indeed, digitalmars newsserver has a lot of inconsitencies with nntp
> protocol. We already have several complaints from users concerning
> this particular server. It reaaly breaks the standard. I'm afraid that
> we will not patch Omea for that.

is this true?
can anything be done about it?
will anything be done about it?
what server is it running?