september / test

"I see nothing" (Hogan's...)

The only issue I have with ET is it doesn't always connect to Thunderbird and once in a while this connection means I can't read a message for a while. Seems to sort itself out after a bit though!

John :-#)#

I'd been using Supernews for decades but they have become erratic, sometimes dropping my insightful and amusing posts. We can't allow that!

I use the Agent newsreader, which works pretty well.

My provider Frugal Usenet seems to be having a similar issue with dropped posts. Test, test

Looks good.

I use ES and Microplanet Gravity as the news reader. Sofar no problem for several years.

I am using snipped-for-privacy@individual.de. No drop-outs or anything but no binaries.

Ok, not free but only 10 Euros a year and they let me pay for several years at a time to reduce the hassle.

Works ok. I have used e-t since I found this group circa 12-13 years ago. My readers are thunderbird on pcs and NewsTapLite on iPhones. Outages happen only rarely and seem short duration.

It's this place:

Binaries! You mean people watch movies and TV shows when they could be designing electronics?

Pretty messed up if you ask me.

Testing again, at home now.

The day when as John Larkin is insightful and amusing has yet to dawn.

Eternal September works for me, most of the time. I do share John Robertson's experience of having to wait for it display a post or post one of my messages.

It's always worth checking here:

Ray Banana (who runs e-s) is doing a lot of work on the servers since the message "archive" was lost a couple of months ago. He is slowly repopulating them, and it means there can be an odd break in service now and again.

You can always ask for your money back...

I just donated 100 euros. Is that worth much?

About $110. Ray will be most grateful.

No, no, maybe you are too young for this :-)

In the days of the Neanderthals we used to share schematics, oscilloscope plots, prototype photographs and stuff on the newsgroup a.b.s.e. which supports binaries. Think of it as attached files.

Ok, yes, maybe there has been the occasional Dilbert cartoon as well ...

zzzzzzz

It's working. Ed

Right, my impression was these days it's possible to use Usenet to exchange relatively large files, like DVD rips and such. I'm assuming mostly of pirated and/or scandalous material.

Beats me though I'm not much of a movie-person.