News server load becoming more and more an issue

[Paulo Pinto]

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.