NNTP Posting broken too?

[Steve Rindsberg]

Nothing from the web is appearing in the NNTP view of this group.

Testing to see if NNTP posts appear in NNTP, at least.

If you can't read this, then it's totally broken.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Steve;

The only thing that's broken is Mactopia ‹ the Forums are totally
dysfunctional & have been for some time. We're still getting stuff by way of
Google Groups, etc. but anything posted directly to any of the Mactopia
Forums is basically going into a Black Hole. It also appears that any
replies generated from NNTP aren't getting into the Mactopia Forums either.

This has been an ongoing issue for more than a year vacillating between
minor & serious, but has now hit rock bottom. MacBU is aware of it, people
are hammering on the developer fix it, but it seems to be well outside their
level of expertise. My understanding is that it isn't a MS unit but an
independent outfit ("WebCrossing") that supposedly handles it.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Steve;

The only thing that's broken is Mactopia — the Forums are totally
dysfunctional & have been for some time.

I can't even log into the MacTopia forums anymore :-\

Corentin

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Taj,

Sheesh. And the Windows side's been a mess off and on through early November
too.

Arrghhh ..............

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Hi Steve,

I noticed the same thing.
Anything posted to Mactopia fails to be reflected
on the NNTP newsgroups, and possibly vice versa.
At the very least, it's extremely unreliable.

Someone at Microsoft is not doing their job...
Even if the forum maintenance and development is
outsourced, someone at Microsoft should be monitoring
the sites, don't you think?

(Wishful thinking?)

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Even if the forum maintenance and development is
outsourced, someone at Microsoft should be monitoring
the sites, don't you think?

It's a big place, MS. Sometimes the eye that watches the forum isn't attached to
the body that has its hand on the switches. And the latter isn't always watching
the former for signals. Or so I understand it.

 

[CyberTaz]

MacBU is fully aware of the situation & are mercilessly riding herd on the
vendor with whips & chains. Unfortunately, the vendor seems to be less than
capable of untangling their own tangled underwear. I would imagine that
alternatives have been considered but that the options are impractical,
uncertain, and prohibitively expensive.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac