IS News server issue?

the money the people pay for saix local , does saix use that towards upgrading there servers ? eg: *the server*
 
Freaksta said:
a proper business wouldn't do that..
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This is SA telecoms dude, none of them are 'proper' businesses.

Being a tier-1 provider, ADSL accounts are not their core business. They are not obligated to provide a news server, nor are they obligated to upgrade and maintain it. ADSL account sales are like pocket change to them - they don't care if people migrate because they still have their business clients. Also don't forget that most of SA's sites are hosted by IS, that's one of the areas where they make their money.

That is the reason why people said to stop talking about it - not because they wanted to be selfish, but because they didn't want it to break. Unfortunately some people were too thick-skulled to realise this when it was pointed out to them, but they went ahead and did it anyway. Now it's broken and they have only themselves to blame, nobody else.
 
Highflyer_GP said:
This is SA telecoms dude, none of them are 'proper' businesses.

Being a tier-1 provider, ADSL accounts are not their core business. They are not obligated to provide a news server, nor are they obligated to upgrade and maintain it. ADSL account sales are like pocket change to them - they don't care if people migrate because they still have their business clients. Also don't forget that most of SA's sites are hosted by IS, that's one of the areas where they make their money.

That is the reason why people said to stop talking about it - not because they wanted to be selfish, but because they didn't want it to break. Unfortunately some people were too thick-skulled to realise this when it was pointed out to them, but they went ahead and did it anyway. Now it's broken and they have only themselves to blame, nobody else.
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Well put...

Except slight disagreement on the end :p

I still think that most people found out about the news server through word of mouth.
People who stumbled upon it here for the first time, would not have made much sense of it...
Maybe a rare case that the forums caused people to download from the server.... But sure (ie.. guessing/assuming) most were told from friends..

Would be a nice poll actually...
If you used the news server, how did you find out about it?
a) MyADSL forums
b) A friend
c) Other forums
d) Other

Im curious what the results would be!
For me, it would be (b)
:D
 
d) Other
been using it for 6+ years i think.
Found out about them when i discovered mame32 and wanted to find roms.
 
theStudent said:
I still think that most people found out about the news server through word of mouth.
People who stumbled upon it here for the first time, would not have made much sense of it...
Maybe a rare case that the forums caused people to download from the server.... But sure (ie.. guessing/assuming) most were told from friends..

Would be a nice poll actually...
If you used the news server, how did you find out about it?
a) MyADSL forums
b) A friend
c) Other forums
d) Other

Im curious what the results would be!
For me, it would be (b)
:D
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I tend to disagree ;)

Have a look at the number of people who view these news server threads (next to the number of posts) - it's largely disproportioned compared to other threads posts/views ratio.

My guess would therefore be (a) or (c)

For me it was (d) about 5 years back, courtesy of yahoo and google.
 
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d) for me too, but it was years ago for the picture binaries, long before the web is what it is today. Somewhere arouond the release of Doom2 :D
 
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