Posted by Adam H. Kerman on June 16, 2008, 7:12 pm
>Meat Plow wrote:
>> Eeyore wrote:
>> > "Adam H. Kerman" wrote:
>> >> Eeyore wrote:
>> >> >"Adam H. Kerman" wrote:
>> >> >>Eeyore wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >>>http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/zen/zen-1.0_15.html
>> >>
>> >> >>You are aware that you made a full chapter quote of a classic book
>> >> >>about the Internet, but it's ancient.
>> >>
>> >> >Does that make it any less useful ?
>> >>
>> >> In this case, yes.
>> >
>> > If you have new and useful info about newgroup creation then please let us
>> > know instead of providing meaningless one-liners.
>>
>> Looks like you found someone new to argue with :)
>>
>> Adam isn't your run of the mill opponent. FYI
>Do please elaborate. Is he potentially useful or simply a complete wanker ?
I gave you good advice; you just didn't wanna hear it.
Posted by Kathy Morgan on June 16, 2008, 5:16 pm
> If you have new and useful info about newgroup creation then please let us
> know instead of providing meaningless one-liners.
The current guidelines are at
<http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:creation>
--
Kathy
Posted by Ulysses on June 17, 2008, 1:12 pm
> The alt.* heirarchy isn't going anywhere; just that
> some ISPs won't contract out to provide them to their
> customers any longer, and in the case of Time-Warner,
> all news service is gone. I'd bet that Time-Warner
> has been trying to figure out for awhile how to cut
> news service, and Cuomo came along dressed as the
> perfect excuse. Matter of fact, their announcement
> doesn't even mention that, just that "since there is
> such little demand for news service anymore..."
> Yeah, RIGHT!
When my news server was not responding last week I called my ISP and the
"Tech" I spoke to didn't know what USENet was! Apparently there is me and
maybe one other guy in all of DSLExtreme that uses USENet. Hard to beleive.
This reminds me of the demise if IRC. Everyone was using it for chat etc
then suddenly nobody was using it. At least newsgroups are still usable.
>> If all you want is access to text-only groups, there
> are plenty of free servers out there. Unfortunately,
> that's not the case for binaries. If you want access
> to alt.binaries.coffee, for instance, there aren't any
> completely free servers out there for that...
Got any links for any free servers? All the ones I found were not really
free. I ended up posting with Google (shudder).
Posted by Balanced View on June 17, 2008, 4:28 pm
Ulysses wrote:
>
>> The alt.* heirarchy isn't going anywhere; just that
>> some ISPs won't contract out to provide them to their
>> customers any longer, and in the case of Time-Warner,
>> all news service is gone. I'd bet that Time-Warner
>> has been trying to figure out for awhile how to cut
>> news service, and Cuomo came along dressed as the
>> perfect excuse. Matter of fact, their announcement
>> doesn't even mention that, just that "since there is
>> such little demand for news service anymore..."
>> Yeah, RIGHT!
>>
> When my news server was not responding last week I called my ISP and the
> "Tech" I spoke to didn't know what USENet was! Apparently there is me and
> maybe one other guy in all of DSLExtreme that uses USENet. Hard to beleive.
> This reminds me of the demise if IRC. Everyone was using it for chat etc
> then suddenly nobody was using it. At least newsgroups are still usable.
>
>>> If all you want is access to text-only groups, there
>>>
>> are plenty of free servers out there. Unfortunately,
>> that's not the case for binaries. If you want access
>> to alt.binaries.coffee, for instance, there aren't any
>> completely free servers out there for that...
>>
> Got any links for any free servers? All the ones I found were not really
> free. I ended up posting with Google (shudder).
>
Aioe.org , it works most of the time
Posted by Eeyore on June 18, 2008, 3:32 am
Balanced View wrote:
> Aioe.org , it works most of the time
Limit on number of daily post, posts to single groups only, will be flooded in no
time at all and fall over.
PLEASE don't kill it. Which is all you'll achieve. I keep it purely as a backup.
Graham
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>> Eeyore wrote:
>> > "Adam H. Kerman" wrote:
>> >> Eeyore wrote:
>> >> >"Adam H. Kerman" wrote:
>> >> >>Eeyore wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >>>http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/zen/zen-1.0_15.html
>> >>
>> >> >>You are aware that you made a full chapter quote of a classic book
>> >> >>about the Internet, but it's ancient.
>> >>
>> >> >Does that make it any less useful ?
>> >>
>> >> In this case, yes.
>> >
>> > If you have new and useful info about newgroup creation then please let us
>> > know instead of providing meaningless one-liners.
>>
>> Looks like you found someone new to argue with :)
>>
>> Adam isn't your run of the mill opponent. FYI
>Do please elaborate. Is he potentially useful or simply a complete wanker ?