On 2/05/2006 7:23 p.m., Andrew McMillan wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 16:37 +1200, Matthew Poole wrote:
I notice that there's been a dearth of comment in here about this. Does the NZNOG community not especially care, or has this just flown below the radar?
I guess it's flown below the radar? Presumably the signal to noise ratio of usenet has improved in the ten years since I gave up on it - perhaps because all the spam-encouraging eyeballs went somewhere else.
Still, I can well imagine that Xtra's "broadband" offerings would be useful for reading usenet, but really not for much else... certainly my SSH connections have improved no end since I canned my very-much-A DSL connection.
So, just for interest's sake, what's up with Xtra and usenet?
Time for another beer, I think.
I'm starting to think that the whole continued carry on with 'beer' being mentioned all the time is getting a bit over the top. Surely we have better things to be concerned about than mentioning beer in everything we write? Are people discussing things that are that far offtopic that they need to mention 'beer' in some lame attempt to keep on topic what else they say? (No that's not directed at you in particular, Andrew). I don't think it is an image that we should be pushing, given this is a public mailing list afterall. And to bring this back on topic, I imagine the topic of Xtra Usenet has gone under the radar as it is probably more a case of Xtra's customers being affected rather than too many people on this list. As a techie type user (ex ISP admin), I'm totally turned off Xtra anyway right now - port 25 blocking was one thing, but removing NNTP access - glad I'm on another ISP........ reuben (who does like beer, but not *that* much that I have to mention it all the time)