Yuck
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On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 06:03:22 GMT, jennybravo <jaispl…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >In other words, Prodigy sucks, eh????
I don’t know if it’s Blurt’s server, or if it has to do with his switch from Flashnet [which would still be Prodigy's fault] – but I’ve had Prodigy for two years, and I’ve only had problems with newsgroups maybe three times in those two years. And the problem was resolved within hours. I’ve never had a problem with my Prodigy email service. Kristina
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- but I’ve > had Prodigy for two years, and I’ve only had problems with newsgroups > maybe three times in those two years. And the problem was resolved > within hours. I’ve never had a problem with my Prodigy email service. > Kristina
I’ve never had a problem with either email or newsgroups with one major exception: an upgrade of Prodigy software left my older modem unable to ‘recognize’ what it needed to in order to work properly. A new modem solved the problem, after much investigating from three different directions…sigh….it took a month. The only problem with Prodigy I ever have is generally on Fridays at times, when they are doing some sort of maintenance/upgrading of my local server. The problem is generally resolved rather quickly, resulting only in a couple of hours or so offline. I’ve been a Prodigy member for about 10 years. KAT In CT
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Kristina wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 06:03:22 GMT, jennybravo > <jaispl…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > >In other words, Prodigy sucks, eh???? > I don’t know if it’s Blurt’s server,
I end up having to use 3 different Prodigy newsservers, because of switching when one messes up. The one I have used most is the same one you said you use, news.prodigy.net. That one got hosed the other day, and has several times before. Also, we’ve discussed before why you might be a lot less aware of missing messages, since you don’t OCD over making sure you read (and reread again before responding) everything posted. And I surely doubt KAT OCDs over it, either. Just doesn’t seem to be her style. > or if it has to do with his > switch from Flashnet
Yup. From everything I read on their help newsgroups, there are worse problems for former Flashnet accounts. > [which would still be Prodigy's fault]
Yup. Especially since another broken promise of theirs was that the quality would remain the same with the takeover by Prodigy, while in reality, there was an immediate big drop in quality, which has only gotten worse since. But hey, Kristina, I still appreciate your info on this. You too, KAT. Today’s the last day for me to quit without having to pay for another month. I still think the undependable service could be a big help for me breaking my ast addiction, but that can (and so far HAS) backfired. I’ll make a decision soon, or else a decision by indecision (which I am VERY good at!). Blurt – but I’ve – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> had Prodigy for two years, and I’ve only had problems with newsgroups > maybe three times in those two years. And the problem was resolved > within hours. I’ve never had a problem with my Prodigy email service. > Kristina
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -KATHRYN A TAUBERT wrote: > – but I’ve > > had Prodigy for two years, and I’ve only had problems with newsgroups > > maybe three times in those two years. And the problem was resolved > > within hours. I’ve never had a problem with my Prodigy email service. > > Kristina > I’ve never had a problem with either email or newsgroups with one major > exception: an upgrade of Prodigy software left my older modem unable to > ‘recognize’ what it needed to in order to work properly. A new modem solved > the problem, after much investigating from three different > directions…sigh….it took a month. > The only problem with Prodigy I ever have is generally on Fridays at times, > when they are doing some sort of maintenance/upgrading of my local server. > The problem is generally resolved rather quickly, resulting only in a couple > of hours or so offline. I’ve been a Prodigy member for about 10 years. > KAT In CT
Problems with email at the moment. Call 1-800-213-0992 and a recording comes on announcing email problems. Same yesterday. Tons of messages in their help newsgroups about current email problems. Several different problems. This happens more and more often. Also, very often those groups are flooded with messages from people having problems with newsgroups at the same times that I am having problems. They make a lot of excuses and try blaming anything but Prodigy. Though the problems are not just for former Flashnet customers who pay less, because Flashnet was cheaper than Prodigy service, the problems are more extensive for us. A big issue that people complain about on their help newsgroups is that their status page never acknowledges problems, but their excuse for that is that the people who are responsible for that page are not in communication with the people who identify and work on the problems. They broke their promise of improving newsgroup service and reporting on every friday on their progress. When somebody politely asked about it, the guy in charge of newgroups posted a nasty reply. He also posted someone’s usenet posting history when she complained about problems. I could go on and on, but I won’t. Blurt
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"John Morten Malerbakken" <John.Mor…@malerbakken.com> wrote in message news:%t7b7.8112$5t1.14240@nntpserver.swip.net… > Randall, > I have set my system up to store messages for 60 days. After that they are > automatically deleted. I see no need to store messages longer than two > months. If you have not answered or heard anything in that time, they are > just wasting disk space. Just an idea.
Mine are stored for 10 days. Jo
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On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:54:25 GMT, Blurt Durtwurd <blurtdurtw…@yahoo.com> wrote: >But hey, Kristina, I still appreciate your info on this. You too, KAT.
I didn’t post what I did to rehash our old discussion about whether Prodigy provides good service or not, Blurt. I posted it so that anyone who might be interested in it can see that not everyone has had the same problems. Kristina
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On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 17:23:53 GMT, Kristina <ladeebkw…@aol.comgoaway> wrote: >On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:54:25 GMT, Blurt Durtwurd ><blurtdurtw…@yahoo.com> wrote: >>But hey, Kristina, I still appreciate your info on this. You too, KAT. >I didn’t post what I did to rehash our old discussion about whether >Prodigy provides good service or not, Blurt. I posted it so that >anyone who might be interested in it can see that not everyone has had >the same problems.
And this came out a whole lot more abruptly than I meant it. Sorry. Kristina
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Kristina wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:54:25 GMT, Blurt Durtwurd > <blurtdurtw…@yahoo.com> wrote: > >But hey, Kristina, I still appreciate your info on this. You too, KAT. > I didn’t post what I did to rehash our old discussion about whether > Prodigy provides good service or not, Blurt. I posted it so that > anyone who might be interested in it can see that not everyone has had > the same problems. > Kristina
Sure, I understand that. But in addition, I still appreciate your input. Blurt
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Kristina wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 17:23:53 GMT, Kristina <ladeebkw…@aol.comgoaway> > wrote: > >On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:54:25 GMT, Blurt Durtwurd > ><blurtdurtw…@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>But hey, Kristina, I still appreciate your info on this. You too, KAT. > >I didn’t post what I did to rehash our old discussion about whether > >Prodigy provides good service or not, Blurt. I posted it so that > >anyone who might be interested in it can see that not everyone has had > >the same problems. > And this came out a whole lot more abruptly than I meant it. Sorry. > Kristina
If you’re worried about sounding like a snark, forget it! You don’t fit that characterization at all. In fact, if you were to want to become a snark, you’d have a lot of work to do. You’d need a complete overhaul of your personality. Blurt
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On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 18:47:50 GMT, Blurt Durtwurd <blurtdurtw…@yahoo.com> wrote: >If you’re worried about sounding like a snark, forget it! You don’t fit >that characterization at all. In fact, if you were to want to become a >snark, you’d have a lot of work to do. You’d need a complete overhaul >of your personality.
ROFL! When I was typing the apology, I wondered if you’d remember "snarky". Kristina
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On Sun, 05 Aug 2001 05:20:52 GMT, Randall Bart <Barti…@att.spam.net> wrote: >I just had a computer problem. Okay it’s my fault; I ran out of disk space. >Forte Agent is a pretty good program, but it doesn’t deal with disk errors >well. I had several message which I had marked unread so I could reply >later. They are now all marked read. I can: >1) Let them all go >2) Drive myself crazy rereading everything in a.s.t. >3) Try to remember which messages I want to go back to, and then look for >them. The hard part is doing this without falling into 2. >I deleted some old crap, and got things reorganized. In the process I >noticed that in 2000, a.s.t had 17,690 messages totaling 66 megabytes.
Often when i revisit a group i haven’t read for a while, i just mark them all read, click on where it says "date" so it displays in ascending order of time sent, highlight & unread however many recent posts i can be bothered reading, then click on thread to sort by thread. BTW, you’re still using V1.7: ftp://ftp.forteinc.com/pub/agent/a32-18.exe
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Blurt Durtwurd wrote: > Randall Bart wrote: > > I just had a computer problem. Okay it’s my fault; I ran out of disk space. > > Forte Agent is a pretty good program, but it doesn’t deal with disk errors > > well. I had several message which I had marked unread so I could reply > > later. They are now all marked read. I can: > > 1) Let them all go > > 2) Drive myself crazy rereading everything in a.s.t. > > 3) Try to remember which messages I want to go back to, and then look for > > them. The hard part is doing this without falling into 2. > > I deleted some old crap, and got things reorganized. In the process I > > noticed that in 2000, a.s.t had 17,690 messages totaling 66 megabytes. > I certainly can relate, but have no useful advice to offer. Prodigy has > big problems with their newsservers, and one recurring problem is that > all the messages more than a couple days old disappear, and I need to > switch over to a different prodigy server, or unsubscribe to ast and > resubscribe. > Either of those methods totally mess up my preparations for responding > to posts, and I end up having to reread tons of messages. This problem > just came up again, and I am fighting my intense urge to go back and > find the messages I wanted to respond to. I’m REALLY hope I don’t end > up doing that. > I keep changing my mind about dropping this Prodigy service. They have > not lived up to their promises of fixing the problems and reporting once > a week on their progress. The advantages of staying with Prodigy are > that if I handle things well, it will discourage my OCDing about > participating in ast, and discourage me from communicating in email with > people on account of email problems (I really have done a good job of > staying away from emailing – necessary on account of my slowness in > reading (not as slow as it used to be, though) and my slowness and > OCDing with writing and sending email. > The disadvantages are: > 1) If I don’t handle it well (and I haven’t so far), it will make for a > bigger OCD mess for me (so far it has); > 2) Undependable email (the former Flashnet customers have had REALLY bad > email service with Prodigy), including people not receiving my email, > with no notice of it not having gone through sent to me (recurring > problem, especially with email to AOL people), and on occasion me not > receiving emails sent to me, with no notice of it not going through sent > to the sender; > 3) Constant disconnections during peak internet usage hours in the > morning and evening; > 4) Losing my 2 old Flashnet email addresses (Prodigy bought out > Flashnet). > Blurt
In other words, Prodigy sucks, eh???? jennybravo
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I just had a computer problem. Okay it’s my fault; I ran out of disk space. Forte Agent is a pretty good program, but it doesn’t deal with disk errors well. I had several message which I had marked unread so I could reply later. They are now all marked read. I can: 1) Let them all go 2) Drive myself crazy rereading everything in a.s.t. 3) Try to remember which messages I want to go back to, and then look for them. The hard part is doing this without falling into 2. I deleted some old crap, and got things reorganized. In the process I noticed that in 2000, a.s.t had 17,690 messages totaling 66 megabytes. — RB |
