What happened to rec.music.folk?

Subject: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 04:41 PM

Has the newsgroup rec.music.folk shut down or am I not doing something I should be? I'm still recieving the celtic & uk folk groups ok. Anyone knows whats up? Barry

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From:
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 04:48 PM

I still get messages on "rec.music.folk". Send it a message, and I'll reply as soon as I see it. Maybe your ISP has deleted it somehow?

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Pene Azul
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 04:49 PM

Just checked it. It's there. Check with your ISP/news server.

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 05:20 PM

I just posed & didn't see it although the last post is dated Feb 5th & I can't do any better. I unsuscribed & resuscribed but to no avail. The other newsgroups rec.music. celtic & rec.uk.folk, I still have with no problems. I justed posted a message 'Test please ignore', can that be seen. Thanks for you help. Barry

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 05:34 PM

Hi Barry, you have appeared there OK - em replying to you as sender via ng as well.

Jon

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 07:07 PM

I can see Barry F's test on rec.music.folk, too. The wonderful world of digital! I haven't been able to get on the internet today until about 15 minutes ago, and my ISP appears to have gotten a corrupted file of user IDs and passwords, and it's decided that now it doesn't like the only password I've ever had, and I can't get to my mail, in or out, at present, and I can't see my website, nor can I update it (which I'm ready to do), because my ISP FTP server that won't accept my passwored either.

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 09:41 PM

Thanks all, I don't know what happened but I just got fixed up. Barry

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 12:01 AM

Bruce, I am reminded of an old wheat farmer I once harvested with. The 1931 John Deere tractor we were using would stall out periodically. Old Joe Camp would stomp around and kick that sucker right on the nose and cuss: "Goddam machine critter anyhow!" Sometimes it seemed to work. At least the machine critter would start again. Now plant your feet right in front of your CPU and...

Sandy (cyber-consultant)

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: GeorgeH
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 10:09 AM

Almost certainly the problems are down to your ISP . . it's something we know well in the UK!! That's why I currently access Newsgroups via Remarq (which I prefer to DejaNews) - it may take longer for messages to arrive but at least (almost?) all of them do.

[Yes, I have compared "delivery" via an ISP with that via Remarq; with r.m.f. up to about 50% of messages were not making it through our ISP; on cam.misc as many as 80% of messages failed to make it.]

Or as a sig in my part of the world used to say "The Internet is full - go away"

G.

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 07:49 PM

My great-aunt Cathy would sprinkle the tractor with Holy Water, and it seemed to do the job. But I wouldn't advise that with a PC. A good exorcist might be helpful though at times.

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Abby Sale
Date: 24 Jun 08 - 09:56 AM

As of today, Time-Warner Cable no longer carries r.m.f. Too few subscribers, they say. No warning, just plop. They kindly advise I can buy it from several "premium" (ie, for fee) providers.

Phutt! True, it's essentially moribund now but I and many others still monitor it and occasionally post. I been there some 20 years now.

Many's the time (though not recently) near-fried, cold-turkey Mudcatters have messaged there WHAT'S HAPPENING? when Mudcat was down 10 minutes or more.

Well, I guess I can access through Google Groups but it was a Good Thing to get threaded the newsgroup direct to my own computer and mailor.

Phutt on Time-Warner!

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 24 Jun 08 - 10:06 AM

It's a shame they are going and fewer ISPs support them. I rarely see anything of interest on rmc and rmf these days though.

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: DebC
Date: 24 Jun 08 - 10:10 AM

I've had the same thing happen with uk.music.folk The last post is from March 14. But I still get rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic. I haven't troubled my ISP with it, though. They are a small operation and probably have more important things on their plate.

As Abby says, it must have something to do with the traffic on them.

There is always Google groups, I suppose.

Debra Cowan

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 24 Jun 08 - 10:12 AM

Add aioe.org to your newsgroup reader, they carry it and they are still free. Limit of 25 posts a day, but since rmf seems to have had a total of 75 posts this month (despite WAV) you shouldn't be troubled by that.

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 24 Jun 08 - 11:26 AM

uk.music.folk is still a lot more active than rec.music.folk.

Subject: RE: What happened to rec.music.folk?
From: Abby Sale
Date: 24 Jun 08 - 03:34 PM

Excellent, Paul.

That works - the host (main server) address is nntp.aioe.org

I'm even able to tell Forte Agent to pull r.m.f from there but still pull any others from Time-Warner.

Thanx.