Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this is
getting through.

I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't received
any articles since 8th October.

--
Richard Porter

In message <e94faf365a.news@user.minijem.plus.com>
Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:

> Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this is
> getting through.

> I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't received
> any articles since 8th October.

Received here OK.

news.plus.net is an alias to the giganews servers (i.e. not part of
PlusNet)

--
Chris Hughes

In article <e94faf365a.news@user.minijem.plus.com>,
Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this is
> getting through.

> I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't
> received any articles since 8th October.

Yes, it came through okay Richard.

News.Individual.NET is the service I use for the comp.sys.acorn newsgroups.

Dave

News has been very quiet in recent times.

From the beginning of August to now (13/10/22) I've had...

news.eternal-september.org
--------------------------
alt.comp.software.firefox 336
alt.comp.software.thunderbird 429

News.Individual.NET
-------------------
comp.sys.acorn.announce 9
comp.sys.acorn.apps 20
comp.sys.acorn.hardware 2
comp.sys.acorn.misc 29
comp.sys.acorn.networking 0
comp.sys.acorn.programmer 1

Dave

--

Dave Triffid

In article <5a36b3a663dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
wrote:
> In article <e94faf365a.news@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter
> <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> > Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this is
> > getting through.

> > I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't
> > received any articles since 8th October.

> Yes, it came through okay Richard.

> News.Individual.NET is the service I use for the comp.sys.acorn
> newsgroups.

> News has been very quiet in recent times.

I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately. All quiet on
the western front.

--
Chris Newman

Chris Newman wrote:
> I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.

The majority of comms. has moved to
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/

--
Stewart Goldwater

In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Chris Newman wrote:
> > I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.

> The majority of comms. has moved to
> https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/

How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(

Dave

Yes, I know, I've been subscribed to it for years, but I only visit when I
really have to.

D.

--

Dave Triffid

On 13 Oct 2022 as I do recall,
Dave wrote:

> In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
> SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> > The majority of comms. has moved to
> > https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
>
> How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(
>
> Dave
>
> Yes, I know, I've been subscribed to it for years, but I only visit when I
> really have to.
>
I only see it when it occasionally turns up as a Web search result -- I
tend to forget about its existence in the interim....

--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

Strategic withdrawal - running away with dignity!

In article <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> Yes, I know, I've been subscribed to it for years, but I only visit when I
> really have to.

for which consideration we are extremely grateful!

John

In message <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
> SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Chris Newman wrote:
> > > I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.
>
> > The majority of comms. has moved to https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
>
> How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(

How sad that you think so.

I think of it as a much richer resource, much better curated.

David

In article <ad54f0365a.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
> In message <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>
> Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> > In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
> > SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > > Chris Newman wrote:
> > > > I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.
> >
> > > The majority of comms. has moved to https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
> >
> > How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(

> How sad that you think so.

I agree entirely, sometimes it depends which side of the bed he got out
of... Grumpy old sod. ;-)

> I think of it as a much richer resource, much better curated.

> David

Undoubtedly a rich source of stuff... That's not the problem... The time
it takes to find stuff...

Dave

--

Dave Triffid

> In article <ad54f0365a.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
> David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> In message <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>
>> Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

>>> In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
>>> SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>> Chris Newman wrote:
>>>>> I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.
>>>
>>>> The majority of comms. has moved to https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
>>>
>>> How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(

>> How sad that you think so.

> I agree entirely, sometimes it depends which side of the bed he got out
> of... Grumpy old sod. ;-)

>> I think of it as a much richer resource, much better curated.

>> David

> Undoubtedly a rich source of stuff... That's not the problem... The time
> it takes to find stuff...

> Dave

Having tried to sign into the site and been refused because I cannot prove
I am not a robot what do I do ?
Malcolm Smith

--
T M Smith
Using an ARMX6 and RISC OS 5.29 in the North Riding of Yorkshire

T M Smith wrote:
> Having tried to sign into the site [https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/]
> and been refused because I cannot prove I am not a robot what do I do ?

Turn to drink?
--
Stewart Goldwater

In article <8df832375a.Broadband@tmsmith36.plus.com>, T M Smith
<tmsmith36@tmsmith36.plus.com> wrote:

[Snip]

> Having tried to sign into the site and been refused because I cannot
> prove I am not a robot what do I do ? Malcolm Smith

Ask the nearest human to help you? Maybe your battery needs charging?

Good luck

Alan

--
Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.

In message <8df832375a.Broadband@tmsmith36.plus.com>
T M Smith <tmsmith36@tmsmith36.plus.com> wrote:

>> In article <ad54f0365a.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
>> David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>>> In message <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>
>>> Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

>>>> In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
>>>> SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>> Chris Newman wrote:
>>>>>> I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.
>>>>
>>>>> The majority of comms. has moved to https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
>>>>
>>>> How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(

>>> How sad that you think so.

>> I agree entirely, sometimes it depends which side of the bed he got out
>> of... Grumpy old sod. ;-)

>>> I think of it as a much richer resource, much better curated.

>>> David

>> Undoubtedly a rich source of stuff... That's not the problem... The time
>> it takes to find stuff...

>> Dave

> Having tried to sign into the site and been refused because I cannot prove
> I am not a robot what do I do ?

Which browser did you use to try and register?

Was there no tick box below the text that says "Please prove that you're a
human" the box can take a few seconds to appear, just tested it here with
!Iris. But justed tested with NetSurf 3.10 and also a latest build and the
box below the text does not appear - could be a bug in !NetSurf

--
Chris Hughes

In message <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>
SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Chris Newman wrote:
>> I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.

> The majority of comms. has moved to
> https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/

I use !Sargasso

But I also like the news group comp.sys.acorn.

--
Jean-Michel

In article <e94faf365a.news@user.minijem.plus.com>,
Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this
> is getting through.

> I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't
> received any articles since 8th October.

Are you using the new internet stack? I have found that when the ip6
stack is installed it fails to resolve the news.plus.net address.
Going back to the standard ROM internet stack and things are fine. At
the moment I am not bothering with the ip6 stack.

--
Chris Johnson

In message <5a373a5e5echrisjohnson@spamcop.net>
News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <e94faf365a.news@user.minijem.plus.com>,
> Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
>> Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this
>> is getting through.

>> I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't
>> received any articles since 8th October.

> Are you using the new internet stack? I have found that when the ip6
> stack is installed it fails to resolve the news.plus.net address.
> Going back to the standard ROM internet stack and things are fine. At
> the moment I am not bothering with the ip6 stack.

Have you reported the issue. Otherwise it will not get fixed. In any case
news.plus.net is not using IPv6 as PlusNet don't support IPv6 yet.

You don't have to have the IPv6 stack enabled on the on the new stack.
It's a button choice in configure. If not ticked then IPv6 not in use.

--
Chris Hughes

In article <7d8d3f375a.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
> You don't have to have the IPv6 stack enabled on the on the new
> stack. It's a button choice in configure. If not ticked then IPv6
> not in use.

I realise that, and I have never enabled the ip6 option. I actually
checked that the option was not enabled. It is the address
news.plus.net that will not resolve, everything that is not a news
server resolves fine. I tried pinging the giga news addresses that
the plusnet address aliases to and none of those resolve either. It
appears to be a problem with news servers.

--
Chris Johnson

In article <5a373a5e5echrisjohnson@spamcop.net>,
News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <e94faf365a.news@user.minijem.plus.com>,
> Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> > Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this
> > is getting through.

I use giganews (like news.plus.net), and saw all these posts.

> > I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't
> > received any articles since 8th October.

> Are you using the new internet stack? I have found that when the
> ip6 stack is installed it fails to resolve the news.plus.net
> address. Going back to the standard ROM internet stack and things
> are fine. At the moment I am not bothering with the ip6 stack.

Strange - I have been using the new stack since early this year, and
have never seen that. Mind you, I use usenet.f9.net.uk, but that
resolves to giganews as does news.force9.net. I have also just tried
pinging news.plus.net and that resolves and works ok.

--
Martin Avison
Note that unfortunately this email address will become invalid
without notice if (when) any spam is received.

In message <6c0936375a.chris@mytardis>
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <8df832375a.Broadband@tmsmith36.plus.com>
> T M Smith <tmsmith36@tmsmith36.plus.com> wrote:

>>> In article <ad54f0365a.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
>>> David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>>>> In message <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>
>>>> Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

>>>>> In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
>>>>> SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Chris Newman wrote:
>>>>>>> I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.
>>>>>
>>>>>> The majority of comms. has moved to https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
>>>>>
>>>>> How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(

>>>> How sad that you think so.

>>> I agree entirely, sometimes it depends which side of the bed he got out
>>> of... Grumpy old sod. ;-)

>>>> I think of it as a much richer resource, much better curated.

>>>> David

>>> Undoubtedly a rich source of stuff... That's not the problem... The time
>>> it takes to find stuff...

>>> Dave

>> Having tried to sign into the site and been refused because I cannot prove
>> I am not a robot what do I do ?

> Which browser did you use to try and register?

> Was there no tick box below the text that says "Please prove that you're a
> human" the box can take a few seconds to appear, just tested it here with
> !Iris. But justed tested with NetSurf 3.10 and also a latest build and the
> box below the text does not appear - could be a bug in !NetSurf

Yes but when clicked nothing happens!?

--
T M Smith
Using an ARMX6 and RISC OS 5.29 in the North Riding of Yorkshire

In message <5a37444328chrisjohnson@spamcop.net>
News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <7d8d3f375a.chris@mytardis>,
> Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
> > You don't have to have the IPv6 stack enabled on the on the new stack.
> > It's a button choice in configure. If not ticked then IPv6 not in use.
>
> I realise that, and I have never enabled the ip6 option. I actually checked
> that the option was not enabled. It is the address news.plus.net that will
> not resolve, everything that is not a news server resolves fine. I tried
> pinging the giga news addresses that the plusnet address aliases to and
> none of those resolve either. It appears to be a problem with news servers.

I've just tried pinging news.plus.net and it resolves fine for me.
69.80.102.133

I've no idea what might be causing your problem, though, sorry.

In desperation you could add the above address as an entry in your Hosts
file.

David

In message <8df832375a.Broadband@tmsmith36.plus.com>
T M Smith <tmsmith36@tmsmith36.plus.com> wrote:

>
>
> > In article <ad54f0365a.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
> > David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
> > > In message <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>
> > > Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > > In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
> > > > SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > > > > Chris Newman wrote:
> > > > > > I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.
> > > >
> > > > > The majority of comms. has moved to
> > > > > https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
> > > >
> > > > How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(
>
> > > How sad that you think so.
>
> > I agree entirely, sometimes it depends which side of the bed he got out
> > of... Grumpy old sod. ;-)
>
> > > I think of it as a much richer resource, much better curated.
>
> > > David
>
> > Undoubtedly a rich source of stuff... That's not the problem... The time
> > it takes to find stuff...
>
> > Dave
>
> Having tried to sign into the site and been refused because I cannot prove
> I am not a robot what do I do ?

I assume this is when trying to create an account, rather than signing
in to an existing account?

David

In article <3f4271375a.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
> In desperation you could add the above address as an entry in your
> Hosts file.

It's a thought. I should add that this was not a single test. It
started on Aug 14th, according to the NewsHound logs. I assumed
initially the problem was down to PlusNet, since the new stack had
been working ok. By chance I uninstalled the new stack at some point
and news started working again. I have installed and uninstalled the
new stack (12th and 18th May versions and the 1st June ROD version)
on numerous occasions since then, but the behaviour is still the same.

I have racked my brains to check whether I installed something else
around that time that could be the cause but have come up with
nothing. It is baffling that it is news servers that fail to resolve
- everything else seems ok.

--
Chris Johnson

News, on 14 Oct, wrote:

> In article <e94faf365a.news@user.minijem.plus.com>,
> Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> > Could someone using news.plus.net (or otherwise) confirm that this
> > is getting through.
>
> > I've been getting connection failures from the server and haven't
> > received any articles since 8th October.
>
> Are you using the new internet stack? I have found that when the ip6
> stack is installed it fails to resolve the news.plus.net address.
> Going back to the standard ROM internet stack and things are fine. At
> the moment I am not bothering with the ip6 stack.

There is more here :-

https://community.plus.net/t5/Everything-else/Usenet-not-working/td-p/1880679

and specifically :-

https://community.plus.net/t5/Everything-else/Usenet-not-working/m-p/1883750#M29278

It's all a bit wierd.

--
David Pitt

David Higton, on 13 Oct, wrote:

> In message <5a36e2e6f8dave@triffid.co.uk>
> Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > In article <mpro.rjpew40003yf506vk.nwsgrp@ntlworld.com>,
> > SG nws <nwsgrp@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > > Chris Newman wrote:
> > > > I've noticed here how little traffic there has been lately.
> >
> > > The majority of comms. has moved to https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
> >
> > How unfortunate, such a time wasting blob to wade through. :-(
>
> How sad that you think so.
>
> I think of it as a much richer resource, much better curated.

It is the only game in town now, but the signal to noise is dreadful.

--
David Pitt