Re: help! can't find the samplitude newsgroup

[Rick Stone]

Well, up until a couple of weeks ago I'd been able to connect to it fine.
There was still activity there. Then my Windows XP crashed and I had to do
a system reinstall, since then I haven't been able to get it. I wasn't sure
if the news server was "news.sekd.com" or "news.sekd.net", but I've tried to
set it up using both and when tell Outlook Express to search for groups I
just get an error that the server can't be found.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

"Nil" > wrote in message
...
> On 09 Nov 2003, Nil > wrote in
> :
>
> >> news.sekd.com/alt.sekd
> >
> > Are you sure? I haven't been able to connect to it for months. I
> > tried again just now and my newsreader times out without
> > connecting.
>
> Never mind, it worked. I still get a spurious timeout message, but I
> can still retrieve and read messages there. Probably been OK the whole
> time and I didn't realize it.
>
>

[Nil]

On 11 Nov 2003, "Rick Stone" >
wrote in :

> Well, up until a couple of weeks ago I'd been able to connect to
> it fine. There was still activity there. Then my Windows XP
> crashed and I had to do a system reinstall, since then I haven't
> been able to get it. I wasn't sure if the news server was
> "news.sekd.com" or "news.sekd.net", but I've tried to set it up
> using both and when tell Outlook Express to search for groups I
> just get an error that the server can't be found.
>
> Any help on this would be appreciated.

I just tried to connect to news.sekd.com and it worked. Previously, I
had been getting time-out errors, which implied that the server
couldn't be found. Then, I realized a few days ago that it was
connecting anyway, despite the time-out.

I don't know what it all means, except that the sekd server is alive,
even it it's not very healthy.

There doesn't seem to be much message traffic there anymore. I suppose
most people have gone over to the web forum.