what's happend to Rod Mollise??

Aren't you going to tell us what your son has against Rod Mollise?

Davoud

Nothing that I know of.

Maybe he's a Yankee. And yes, that is a separate word by itself!

;-)

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/

Are you interested in understanding optics?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATM_Optics_Software/

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"Axel" wrote:

It does not cost anything and is very easy to read and post
via Google (formerly Dejanews).

I don't see traditional pay newsreaders surviving for much longer
competing against Google. Besides the free service and the ability to
post from anywhere, bigger advantages IMO are the extensive Usenet
archive search capabilities and of course the overall speed of viewing
the threads, much quicker than any newsreader I've ever seen.

Your news server must really, really, really suck. Even reading
on-line usenet is faster for me than google groups. Usually I just
download messages en-masse, in which case the next message appears
instantly when I press "n".


Tim
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says...
It does not cost anything and is very easy to read and post
via Google (formerly Dejanews).

I don't see traditional pay newsreaders surviving for much longer
competing against Google. Besides the free service and the ability to
post from anywhere, bigger advantages IMO are the extensive Usenet
archive search capabilities and of course the overall speed of viewing
the threads, much quicker than any newsreader I've ever seen. I would
happily pay perhaps $5/mo. to use Google Groups over a traditional
newsreader.

You must have an /extremely/ slow newsreader if online via the web is
faster. I find the primitive text editing capabilities and lack of
configurability of web interfaces to be a massive drawback. To me,
there's no way a web interface can compete with even a simple reader
like tin, when coupled with a powerful editor such as vi. Right now,
I'm using Gravity under WinXP, but even that (IMO) is vastly better
than a web widget. IMO, html really makes for a terrible software
interface.

But, to each his own. :-)
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Even reading on-line usenet is faster for me than google groups.

Sounds like something's wrong with your web browser; loading an entire
thread plus tree in Groups usually takes less than half a second.
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Cheers,
Ritesh

I find the primitive text editing capabilities and lack of
configurability of web interfaces to be a massive drawback.

I'm curious, what does one need advanced text editing for in order to
post on Usenet?? AFAIK, Usenet is all in ASCII anyway and fonts,
colors, styles, etc are not applicable?
Agreed on the configurability.

Cheers,
Ritesh

"Axel" wrote:

Even reading on-line usenet is faster for me than google groups.

Sounds like something's wrong with your web browser; loading an entire
thread plus tree in Groups usually takes less than half a second.

Half a second is too long, I prefer interactive applications.


Tim
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This is not my signature.

"Axel" wrote:

I find the primitive text editing capabilities and lack of
configurability of web interfaces to be a massive drawback.

I'm curious, what does one need advanced text editing for in order to
post on Usenet?? AFAIK, Usenet is all in ASCII anyway and fonts,
colors, styles, etc are not applicable?

Is search and replace or a spell check too much to ask?


Tim
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This is not my signature.

Is search and replace or a spell check too much to ask?

I'm going to look at transitioning to a different reader, but I couldn't
survive without my spill checker.

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/

Are you interested in understanding optics?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATM_Optics_Software/

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Tim
--
This is not my signature.

In article .com,
says...
I find the primitive text editing capabilities and lack of
configurability of web interfaces to be a massive drawback.

I'm curious, what does one need advanced text editing for in order to
post on Usenet?? AFAIK, Usenet is all in ASCII anyway and fonts,
colors, styles, etc are not applicable?
Agreed on the configurability.

I'm not interested in fonts, colors, etc., either: I'm talking about
text editing, not word processing or page layout. I like things like
autoindention, regular expressions search/replace, macros, jump to
lines, column blocks, syntax highlighting, entab/detab, etc., etc. On
a newsgroup like s.a.a., these are a minimal advantage. On the other
hand, say, when on comp.lang.c, posting or reading code, they're
_extremely_ handy. Not that I post to c.l.c. (I'm not that good :-),
but more power is better.

Any time I'm editing text, it's nice to have those kind of
capabilities at my fingertips. It's kind of something that "you never
knew you needed" until you learned to use it a little bit. Now I hate
to give it up. :-)
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On 1 Feb 2005 06:05:05 -0800, RMOLLISE wrote:

If you can't see my posts, you won't see this...I guess...but maybe
someone will copy it to you. The problem MAY be, that I have recently
had to begin posting using Google Groups (i.e. Deja) rather than AOL.
AOL is phasing out their Usenet service, and their database is hosed.
So, until I can organize myself to get another ISP...


Hi Rod,

there's a free news server for personal use available he

news.individual.de

Just send them an email with your name and email address and they'll
send you a username / password.

all the best,

uwe



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