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is Google Groups blocking RBT Usenet group?
On Oct 5, 6:33*pm, Tim McNamara wrote:
In article , *landotter wrote: On Oct 5, 3:56*pm, Tom Sherman wrote: Dan Zarfus wrote: Hi, Had to go into outlook and mess around to send a message to group and check on my last msg... anyone know whats up? *Google groups hasn't updated rbt for a day... Why would anyone use Google Groups unless they could not otherwise get a Usenet feed? Because some of us prefer GG as you are not tied to a single computer. Hmm. *I can log into my ISP's NNTP secure server from any computer, although it's got some limitations (come to think of it, though, I can't recall every doing this. *I just take my laptop with me). *Granted that this sort of approach is not going to work for everyone. Google is your mainframe. Your mainframe, perhaps; certainly not mine and I doubt very much if it is Tom's. *Perhaps it was reading _1984_ and _The Shockwave Rider_ during my formative years that makes me seriously distrust the "new"trend toward mega-centralized content and services such as what Google is providing. *They've violated their "do no evil" credo enough times already. It seems to me that newsgroup postings aren't exactly high risk information. I do understand the sentiment, but there are far more serious intrusions into your privacy and internet movements. R |
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is Google Groups blocking RBT Usenet group?
"Tim McNamara" wrote in message ... In article , Dan O wrote: On Oct 5, 3:33 pm, Tim McNamara wrote: In article , landotter wrote: On Oct 5, 3:56 pm, Tom Sherman wrote: Dan Zarfus wrote: Hi, Had to go into outlook and mess around to send a message to group and check on my last msg... anyone know whats up? Google groups hasn't updated rbt for a day... Why would anyone use Google Groups unless they could not otherwise get a Usenet feed? Because some of us prefer GG as you are not tied to a single computer. Hmm. I can log into my ISP's NNTP secure server from any computer, My ISP does not provide a news feed. A far too common situation these days. I fear that Usenet's days are numbered, at least as a service provided by most ISPs. Then either cough up a few euros to news.individual.net or look around for one of the free or inexpensive servers widely available del cecchi |
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is Google Groups blocking RBT Usenet group?
On Oct 7, 11:16 am, "Del Cecchi"
wrote: "Tim McNamara" wrote in message ... In article , Dan O wrote: On Oct 5, 3:33 pm, Tim McNamara wrote: In article , landotter wrote: On Oct 5, 3:56 pm, Tom Sherman wrote: Dan Zarfus wrote: Hi, Had to go into outlook and mess around to send a message to group and check on my last msg... anyone know whats up? Google groups hasn't updated rbt for a day... Why would anyone use Google Groups unless they could not otherwise get a Usenet feed? Because some of us prefer GG as you are not tied to a single computer. Hmm. I can log into my ISP's NNTP secure server from any computer, My ISP does not provide a news feed. A far too common situation these days. I fear that Usenet's days are numbered, at least as a service provided by most ISPs. Then either cough up a few euros to news.individual.net or look around for one of the free or inexpensive servers widely available I don't have any euros to cough up (not too many dollars, either). I did look around a little for a (free) news feed, but wasn't thrilled with what I readily found. Google is free. I don't have any particular problems with them (quite the contrary, in fact). I wasn't *complaining* that my ISP doesn't provide a news feed. I was offering it as a reason for using Google. Google owns the Deja archives. Usenet archives are one of the most valuable sources of information anywhere. They're not going away. |
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is Google Groups blocking RBT Usenet group?
"Dan O" wrote in message ... On Oct 7, 11:16 am, "Del Cecchi" wrote: "Tim McNamara" wrote in message ... In article , Dan O wrote: On Oct 5, 3:33 pm, Tim McNamara wrote: In article , landotter wrote: On Oct 5, 3:56 pm, Tom Sherman wrote: Dan Zarfus wrote: Hi, Had to go into outlook and mess around to send a message to group and check on my last msg... anyone know whats up? Google groups hasn't updated rbt for a day... Why would anyone use Google Groups unless they could not otherwise get a Usenet feed? Because some of us prefer GG as you are not tied to a single computer. Hmm. I can log into my ISP's NNTP secure server from any computer, My ISP does not provide a news feed. A far too common situation these days. I fear that Usenet's days are numbered, at least as a service provided by most ISPs. Then either cough up a few euros to news.individual.net or look around for one of the free or inexpensive servers widely available I don't have any euros to cough up (not too many dollars, either). I did look around a little for a (free) news feed, but wasn't thrilled with what I readily found. Google is free. I don't have any particular problems with them (quite the contrary, in fact). I wasn't *complaining* that my ISP doesn't provide a news feed. I was offering it as a reason for using Google. Google owns the Deja archives. Usenet archives are one of the most valuable sources of information anywhere. They're not going away. News.individual.net is like 10 or 12 euros per year. And the google interface is so bad it is worth 20 dollars not to have to use it, unless compelled to in order to access the archives. del |
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is Google Groups blocking RBT Usenet group?
Dan Overman wrote:
On Oct 7, 11:16 am, "Del Cecchi" wrote: "Tim McNamara" wrote in message ... In article , Dan O wrote: On Oct 5, 3:33 pm, Tim McNamara wrote: In article , landotter wrote: On Oct 5, 3:56 pm, Tom Sherman wrote: [...] Why would anyone use Google Groups unless they could not otherwise get a Usenet feed? Because some of us prefer GG as you are not tied to a single computer. Hmm. I can log into my ISP's NNTP secure server from any computer, My ISP does not provide a news feed. A far too common situation these days. I fear that Usenet's days are numbered, at least as a service provided by most ISPs. Then either cough up a few euros to news.individual.net or look around for one of the free or inexpensive servers widely available I don't have any euros to cough up (not too many dollars, either). I did look around a little for a (free) news feed, but wasn't thrilled with what I readily found. The only limitation with my free feed is a maximum of cross-posting to 6 newsgroups. Google is free. I don't have any particular problems with them (quite the contrary, in fact). [...] Google shuts down accounts for a period of several hours if one sends too many posts. This makes it hard to participate in extended discussions. -- Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007 If my posts in general annoy or offend, please kill-file. |
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