OT Political humor

Excellent! ...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Apropos; since the link does not work..

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It works for me and at least one other person.

The post is: "OT Political humor" at
alt.binaries.schematics.electronic

Didn't work for me either...

Worked for me, too. Copied it... it's a jewel :-)

What's with the Baer's, Joerg's, etc., that can't manage to click on a URL ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

And Peter2's :-) ...Jim Thompson

[On the Road, in New York]

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Some news reader clients do not support retrieval by message-id. Some news servers don't support the binary groups either. RB is using an old version of SeaMonkey, which I don't think supports message-id retrieval. Peter2 is using Outhouse and Eternal September and so is doubly cursed.

Doubly cursed is absolutely true! Freaking OE sucks like a Hoover, but at least Eternal September is free. I was doing just great until my frickin ISP decided to close, and shut off their NNTP servers. Now Thunderbird won't connect to Eternal September and the guys at Mozilla have no clue as to why it is bad...

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n ISP=20

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I don't know if this will work or not, but it's worth a try.

Install SeaMonkey, it's Mozilla based and combines the mail/news into the package. It seems to be taking a slightly different development path. The menus are almost identical.

I had a problem with Thunderbird losing some of my postings, hence the change.

mike

Forgot to mention...it doesn't do message ID urls, at least with my nntp provider.

mike

Or else don't. Old Netscapes (up to 4.79 or so) are fast and bulletproof newsreaders. Seamonkey, which is theoretically its direct descendant, has got so very slow and so very buggy that I quit using it. It takes about 30 times longer to "mark all messages read" than old Netscapes.

I wish I could find a statically-linked copy of Netscape 4.79 for Linux--there's a libc incompatibility that makes old binaries segfault on loading.

Of course you wouldn't want to use it as a browser, because it hasn't been patched since 2001, but Firefox is still okay.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(Netscape 4.79, for fast fast relief)

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net

The link doesn't work for me. I'm using an old version of firefox.

-Bill

Or me, either with Mozilla or Thunderbird - Thunderbird can find it but it can't open it, nor find an application that can.

"The version of this file is incompatible with the version of Windows you're running ..."

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Apparently it's expired - I went to a.b.s.e and did a subject search on that, and came up empty.

Is it an image? There are free servers all over the place, why not put it on a web page. Even your ISP might offer 'personal web space.'

Thanks, Rich

It works in Netscape® Communicator 4.8. Right click and open in new window, then right click and save the PDF file.

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It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

Phil, I may still have a Netscape 4.xx CD-ROM that someone gave me. They bought it and the printed manual, rather than download it. I'll try to find it, but no guarantees.

I still have the full install file for the Windows version of Netscape 4.8 on a couple hard drives. It is: 22.7 MB (23,855,104 bytes) I have had a habit of keeping a copy of every freeware program I have used, since 1993.

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It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

Thanks, I have install files for the Windows binaries. I may try using one of those under Wine and see if it works. Even emulated, Netscape would have to be better than Seamonkey.

(I have a huge ~/shrinkwr directory full of that stuff too.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net

I've used Netscape to access newsgroups from my first time. I've never found anything I like better.

I have over 1000 1.44 MB floppies with old software that didn't get copied to CD-ROMs. I wonder how much can still be read?

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It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.