Sal M. Onella wrote:


This is only a test post. I have responded to this particular item
twice, once on Sunday and once yesterday. Neither one showed up.
Nothing in what I said would have been censored for any reason. Odd.
I think it said post was successful. I'm checking that now and will
wait to see if this appears in the group.

"Sal"

It's unlikely you will see this, but google groups has been
down since the 25th. It seems to be allowing posts, but it's
not showing any new posts since the 25th.
That's why you are not seeing your posts.

On Jun 28, 6:55*pm, NM5K wrote:


It's unlikely you will see this, but google groups has been
down since the 25th. It seems to be allowing posts, but it's
not showing any new posts since the 25th.
That's why you are not seeing your posts.

Thanks.

Posts seem now to be showing in bursts, but few (?) close to real
time.
Time to spend money for a more dependable newsreader, I suppose.

Sal M. Onella wrote:

On Jun 28, 6:55 pm, NM5K wrote:


It's unlikely you will see this, but google groups has been
down since the 25th. It seems to be allowing posts, but it's
not showing any new posts since the 25th.
That's why you are not seeing your posts.

Thanks.

Posts seem now to be showing in bursts, but few (?) close to real
time.
Time to spend money for a more dependable newsreader, I suppose.

I sort of expect they will get it straightened out before
too long. I think they are doing some massive changes. The
search engine, groups, the whole mess..
Supposably July 1 is when the new system is supposed to
be kicked in. Whether GG will be right by then, who knows..
I'm using eternal-september.org right now. It's pretty
good for a free news server.
But believe it or not, I actually prefer google groups.
Some people shake their heads when I say that, but screw
em if they can't take a joke.. :/
To me, the web based reader is faster and less cumbersome
than using the regular news readers.
Fer instance, on the regular reader I have to look at each
post individually. With GG I see all posts in a thread at
once. It's faster..
Also, if I start fresh on the news server, I have to log in
with my user name and password. And then I have to type in
the new groups I want to look at.. What a pain..
Where as GG, as my usual groups are saved with my "profile"
or whatever you want to call it.
I'll think I'll keep both going, but if they get GG back
in order, I'll likely revert back to it, and keep the
eternal-september.org as a backup.

I looked it up on google it says 'GOAT' definition 'tom KOTAR' fancy that!

"NM5K" wrote in message
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I'm using eternal-september.org right now. It's pretty
good for a free news server.
But believe it or not, I actually prefer google groups.
Some people shake their heads when I say that, but screw
em if they can't take a joke.. :/

snip

Also, if I start fresh on the news server, I have to log in
with my user name and password.

snip

I'll think I'll keep both going, but if they get GG back
in order, I'll likely revert back to it, and keep the
eternal-september.org as a backup.

Good news.

I tried eternal september.org on Win XP in my shack
and it works. This response is through
them using the Outlook Express client, which I
was using before my ISP shut off its NG server.
Good tip. Thanks.

I notice the spam distractions are absent. Good.

Next trick, getting it to work on the iMac, for which I
do not currently have a newsreader. (Betas of the
next Apple OS are said to have major enhancements
to Apple Mail. Fingers crossed for that to include
a newsreader.)

Regarding your login hassle, it is avoidable. My
news client does it for me automatically and
displays my subscribed groups as folders.

True, Outlook Express is bad, but not ALL bad ;-)

"Sal"
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"Sal" wrote in :
....
I tried eternal september.org on Win XP in my shack
and it works. This response is through

I also tried september.org using the XNews client which offers much richer
filtering than you get through most newsreaders... and doesn't have the
bottlenecks and stalls that Google Groups has, with or without its new
interface.

Owen