Tpg news server

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F Murtz

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I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last half
day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own sent from
TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service people know
that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG headquarters in
Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no one
knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I asked
today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?
 
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last half day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own sent from TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service people know that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG headquarters in Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no one knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I asked today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?
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I was a TPG user for a long time and remember a few years ago their news server stopped working, took some weeks (if not months) to fix it. Apparently convincing them that they have problem took most of that time... later it turned out it run out of disk space.

Tom
 
Tom wrote:
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last
half day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own
sent from TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service
people know that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG
headquarters in Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no
one knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I
asked today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?

I was a TPG user for a long time and remember a few years ago their news
server stopped working, took some weeks (if not months) to fix it.
Apparently convincing them that they have problem took most of that
time... later it turned out it run out of disk space.

Tom
But how do you find who to tell, none of the room full of people knew
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who or how or anything about it.
At least one of them does now and I think he is going to try.
 
F Murtz wrote:
Tom wrote:
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last
half day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own
sent from TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service
people know that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG
headquarters in Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no
one knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I
asked today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?

I was a TPG user for a long time and remember a few years ago their news
server stopped working, took some weeks (if not months) to fix it.
Apparently convincing them that they have problem took most of that
time... later it turned out it run out of disk space.

Tom
But how do you find who to tell, none of the room full of people knew
who or how or anything about it.
At least one of them does now and I think he is going to try.
Click to expand...

PS your post did not come through on TPG.
 
On 28/04/2011 8:17 PM, F Murtz wrote:
F Murtz wrote:
Tom wrote:
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last
half day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own
sent from TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service
people know that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG
headquarters in Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no
one knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I
asked today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?

I was a TPG user for a long time and remember a few years ago their news
server stopped working, took some weeks (if not months) to fix it.
Apparently convincing them that they have problem took most of that
time... later it turned out it run out of disk space.

Tom
But how do you find who to tell, none of the room full of people knew
who or how or anything about it.
At least one of them does now and I think he is going to try.


PS your post did not come through on TPG.
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Doesn't surprize me. Tom
 
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last half
day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own sent from
TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service people know
that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG headquarters in
Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no one
knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I asked
today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?
Click to expand...
Yep, nothing in the last day, but it is the first NG problem that I have
had in 4 years with them.
 
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server.
[SNIP]
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I stopped using the TPG NNTP server for reading as a result of the long
outage referred to in another post. As I understand it, a TPG rep on
whingepool kept raising the issue at TPG until one of the
one-day-a-month senior techs came in who knew *where* the NNTP server
was and had a look at it.

Hmmm, I still *post* using the TPG server... and stuff is still getting
out... Maybe I should switch everything to n.i.n.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
keithr wrote:
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last half
day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own sent from
TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service people know
that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG headquarters in
Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no one
knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I asked
today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?

Yep, nothing in the last day, but it is the first NG problem that I have
had in 4 years with them.
Click to expand...
It will probably stay busted because they don't know it is busted
because none of their staff know it exists.
 
F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last half
day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own sent from
TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service people know
that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG headquarters in
Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no one
knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I asked
today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?
Click to expand...

It is back.
 
On 28/04/2011 10:22 PM, F Murtz wrote:
keithr wrote:
On 28/04/2011 7:50 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have noticed something strange with Tpg news server. for the last half
day I have had no incoming posts through TPG other than my own sent from
TPG. I tried the phone to TPG but none of the expert service people know
that such a thing exists so I went physically to TPG headquarters in
Ryde nsw.
None of the people in a room full of boffins knew what a newsgroup was
til finally one of them figured out how to set up his computer so at
least they now know that I was not talking a foreign language. There
must be a little old man hidden in a room in the bowels of TPG with a
server that has gone bung but no one knows that he exists let alone
where he hides.
I have access through eternal-september or google which work.
The problem is not computer specific as my laptop is not getting TPG
news posts.
We must be a very small group of people, us news group people as no one
knows that such a thing exists judging on the amount of people I asked
today.

Is any other TPG user having the same problem?

Yep, nothing in the last day, but it is the first NG problem that I have
had in 4 years with them.

It will probably stay busted because they don't know it is busted
because none of their staff know it exists.
If memory serves the bloke who set the server years ago does a day or
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two a quarter when called , otherwise the rest are to young and
uninformed to know what a news service is , hounding them is the only
way way or use an alternative , all 12 of you

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