Demon ISP

Hello Group,
Has any one here in this group who uses Demon (Turnpike) in the UK to
collect Newsgroups, especially "alt. binaries. Pictures. Astro."
experienced any difficulties in downloading the Astro images recently?
I have not received any pictures from the group for over 3 weeks. Demon
tell me their technicians are working on the problem but I am not so
sure!
Thanks,
jpd
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John Davies

Wasn't it John Davies who wrote:

Since the outage started, no new binary messages seem to have appeared
on any binaries newsgroups. The non-binary newsgroups seem to now be
functioning normally, but messages that were lost during the outage have
not been recovered. Old messages on binaries newsgroups, from before the
outages started, are still unexpired and retrievable, which is a bit
odd, since I thought that Demon used to expire binaries newsgroups
messages after 3 or 4 days.

A small number of non-binary messages snuck though on some binaries
newsgroups between 29 Sep and 2 Oct, but there's been no actual binaries
on any group that I've looked at since 17 Sep, and no posts at all on
binaries groups since 2 Oct.

Currently, Demon only hold 20 messages on alt.binaries.pictures.astro,
dated between 9 Sep and 17 Sep. The last of those messages being from
yourself asking much the same question then as you're asking now.

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Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

Hello Mike,

If this is the situation, where have these postings gone and why has
this occurred at all? Demon Customer Service concede there is a problem
but do not specify what it is and you cannot get any sensible answer
from the Technical people. MYsky used to run these postings but that has
disappeared, so where does one go to see some of the best amateur
images? Or is it that there is a more sinister aspect here in that all
binaries are being blocked to prevent porn being posted? I think some
answers are needed.
Any one else have any comments?

JPD

In message <[Registered users can see links. ].uk>, Mike Williams
<[Registered users can see links. ].uk> writes

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John Davies