The "new" news service at Sympatico

[Paul King]

On 13 Jun 2006 at 7:43, Scott Allen spaketh these wourdes:

> On Tue Jun 13,2006 06:13:55 AM Paul King wrote:
> > I was just wondering if anyone who is on Sympatico heard about
> > them using a new news-hosting service.
> 
> I'll probably try it soon since I used to use the old server.
> 
> > Does it suck as much as the original Sympatico service did?
> 
> What sucked about it? I never had a problem. However, I just pull all 
> the latest articles, daily, from the groups I read, to a local spool. 
> I then read offline when I have the time.

What sucked? Puh-lenty. For one thing, Sympatico was notoriously bad 
at retaining both single and multipart postings. And, I don't mean just 
binary. I mean posts of literally everything - text, and binary. The 
numbers of posts that arrive at Sympatico themselves were incomplete 
compared even with free servers, and an abnormally high ratio of spam 
(this was also true for the Big 7), compared with free servers. In 
other words, there was utterly and absoutely no attempt to manage 
usenet in any way, shape or form. 

I say this with some passion, since I maintain a 4-part FAQ for sci.bio.food-
science. On Sympatico, only one part shows up.

Paul King

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