newsgroup availability

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:18:34 -0400, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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

It does.

BTW, this problem really makes me want to avoid the newsgroup...  I get no  
indication from my newsreader when it's "working", only when it's broken.   
So as a consequence, if I want to send a message or read messages, I have  
to keep polling to see if it works.

This seems like an artificial problem, does anyone know what the cause is?

-Steve