Network: constant activity, why ??

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Stegozor <stegozor at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is the correct group, indeed :)
> news.numericable.fr is the news server of Numericable. I thought that 
> the form news://news.numericable.fr/fr.reseaux.internet.cable would be 
> clickable in your newsreader

The problem I think was that you gave me an invalid group name: 

"fr.USENET.internet.cable", instead of fr.RESEAUX.blahblah ;-)

> (it is in Thunderbird, for example), but if 
> it isn't that makes no big difference as you pointed out.

Yeah, I use Sylpheed for my e-mail client, and they had a simple "Howto
get started with Newsgroups", which was certainly waiting for me !! ;o)
I should read manuals and help files more often, but from my experience
most of them are out of date, that's why I always prefer to ask on
mailing list first, to save time and get more relevant/useful
information.

The thread about sluggish DNS was interesting, as it might explain why
recently, it always takes a few seconds before I can connect to any
site ! 30Mbps won't be of any benefit for surfing, if the DNS is
slow !!! :-/ :-(((

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Vince