Mike M wrote:
Shane wrote:

Interestingly, Mike, tonight its been okay!

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

I'd totally overlooked the nntp side of things. It's a pretty
reasonable assumption that Tiscali throttle nntp and p2p traffic the
moment their system gets even slightly congested on the grounds that
they don't want their users downloading freebie copies of CSI or
Elvis Costello. I dread to think what it might be like when more
than one or two of their customers use iplayer or the ITV and Channel
4 equivalents.

On the subject of CSI, I saw an ad during it tonight, for some company doing
online scanning and promising to remove adware, fix the registry, remove
unnecessary files, etc. With the possibility of paid registration being
required to remove problems found. You have to figure people watching telly
rather than being on the computer are statistically less likely to know IT
flim-flam when it's dressed up as a godsend.


Shane