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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups (was: Splitting an ethernet)
Menno Hershberger wrote:
I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad. You should be reading and posting to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup. Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those three the last post was in April of 2009. Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating. Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft group. Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...n/topics?gvc=2 I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts, and other spam that google can't or won't filter. |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
98 Guy wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote: I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad. You should be reading and posting to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup. Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those three the last post was in April of 2009. Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating. Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft group. Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...n/topics?gvc=2 I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts, and other spam that google can't or won't filter. Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago? |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
Paul in Houston TX wrote:
98 Guy wrote: Menno Hershberger wrote: I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad. You should be reading and posting to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup. Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those three the last post was in April of 2009. Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating. Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft group. Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...discussion/top ics?gvc=2 I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts, and other spam that google can't or won't filter. Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago? Yes. But that doesn't mean they disappeared. -- I'm going to point my finger at you and shake it. Are you ready? -- A cop |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes: [] Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago? Yes, on their own newsserver. Lots of other servers carried on carrying them, regardless, though. I believe MS stopped news as we know it altogether, i. e. turned off their server; they went over to forums. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so. (First series, fit the first.) |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago? It's a common misconception that Microsoft (or their servers) played some sort of central role in the existance of the microsoft.* usenet hierarchy. This couldn't be further from the truth. The truth is that Microsoft's servers were *peers* on usenet when it comes to those groups. Ever since some point in the mid 1990's they peered their servers with the rest of usenet, allowing messages posted anywhere to be seen on any server. What Microsoft did about 1.5 years ago was to shut down their usenet server (or change their groups into a different forum - a *closed* forum). That had no effect on the rest of the "world-wide" usenet in terms of if they (or how they) continued to carry the microsoft groups amongst themselves - which the vast majority did. |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
Paul in Houston TX wrote:
98 Guy wrote: Menno Hershberger wrote: Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago? Thanks everyone for the clarification. |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message news
In message , Paul in Houston TX writes: [] Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago? Yes, on their own newsserver. Lots of other servers carried on carrying them, regardless, though. I believe MS stopped news as we know it altogether, i. e. turned off their server; they went over to forums. The newsserver is up and running, Configuration: Account: Microsoft Communities Server: msnews.microsoft.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119 But not hosting any Newsgroups at this time... -- User-agent: * Disallow: / |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
In message , 000-222-000
writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message news In message , Paul in Houston TX writes: [] Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago? Yes, on their own newsserver. Lots of other servers carried on carrying them, regardless, though. I believe MS stopped news as we know it altogether, i. e. turned off their server; they went over to forums. The newsserver is up and running, Configuration: Account: Microsoft Communities Server: msnews.microsoft.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119 But not hosting any Newsgroups at this time... OK (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf To me as an anaesthetist, a doctor whose job it is to keep the engine running while someone else tries to fix it - Dr Kevin Fong, Radio Times 25 Sept-1 Oct 2010 |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups
98 Guy wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote: I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad. You should be reading and posting to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup. Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those three the last post was in April of 2009. Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating. Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft group. Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...n/topics?gvc=2 I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts, and other spam that google can't or won't filter. That's not what I see, still getting those posts, or none at all. On top of that I am getting error messages half the time, when sending replies of either too many lines or IP-configuration. Just have to live with it, I guess. Harry. |
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Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups (was: Splitting anethernet)
Menno Hershberger wrote:
Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those three the last post was in April of 2009. Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating. This would account for not seeing any posts lately from the prolific Lostgalibladder... X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com |
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