Interestingly, Mike, tonight its been okay!

Rather as if *they* realize I'm on to them and they've stopped blocking my
newsgroup access! :-)


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I think what you are seeing is probably due to excessive lag caused by
contention. This is exacerbated by using string supplied by the Sardinian
mafia for your connection which can't cope with any sort of load.
--
Mike


Shane wrote:

Do you have any trouble getting newsgroups of an evening lately,
Mike? Every night (that I've tried it) for a week or two now neither
msnews.microsoft - nor news.tiscali - connects, from, say, 9pm
through 11pm. I suspect it's only Tiscali, maybe to do with their
ongoing 'to the wall' process (well-deserved - though I daresay it'll
add to the unemployment in India)? Or just their shoddy service
anyway, which has been getting slower and slower at peak times here
over the past couple of years.