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With this new Windows 7 I suspect I am not getting our news group although I
installed it and have one message from yesterday (Wednesday). Barb |
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Okay, I see my message posted. Had heard that Windows 7 is not compatible
with news groups. Barb |
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On 08/11/2011 06:46 AM, Barb wrote:
With this new Windows 7 I suspect I am not getting our news group although I installed it and have one message from yesterday (Wednesday). Barb IMHO This group is dying. Your two posts showed up. There were two yesterday and that is all I have seen. MLB |
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MLB wrote:
On 08/11/2011 06:46 AM, Barb wrote: With this new Windows 7 I suspect I am not getting our news group although I installed it and have one message from yesterday (Wednesday). Barb IMHO This group is dying. Your two posts showed up. There were two yesterday and that is all I have seen. MLB This group will not die as long as there are cats and people who love them. - And that will be for a long, long time..... |
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:00:53 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote: MLB wrote: On 08/11/2011 06:46 AM, Barb wrote: With this new Windows 7 I suspect I am not getting our news group although I installed it and have one message from yesterday (Wednesday). Barb IMHO This group is dying. Your two posts showed up. There were two yesterday and that is all I have seen. MLB This group will not die as long as there are cats and people who love them. - And that will be for a long, long time..... Newsgroups as a whole are dying because of various forums and facebook and such. But as long as some of us use it, it will still be here until the corporations decide that they don't want to spend money on it. My ISP used to have their own newgroup servers but they ditched them and made anyone who wanted to use them use Giganews. Well, they got us a discount for Giganews. |
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Yes, I had googled and learned that other sources are taking the place of
newsgroups. I'd been in this group along time and really hate to give it up. I don't do facebook or twitter and don't know what forums are replacing this nice newsgroup. Barb |
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Suddenly, without warning, Barb exclaimed (8/12/2011 10:33 AM):
Yes, I had googled and learned that other sources are taking the place of newsgroups. I'd been in this group along time and really hate to give it up. I don't do facebook or twitter and don't know what forums are replacing this nice newsgroup. Barb Yea. One of the other usenet groups I am active in has started a Facebook page. Even though I was hoping it wouldn't happen, many of the posters who've gone to FB post a lot less on the newsgroup now. It's sad, in a way, I can remember when that ng got a couple hundred posts a day... now it might see a dozen. Busier than this group, but still. All my groups are seeing a decrease in posting, which is not helped by ISPs also dropping support for newsgroups as part of getting service. jmc |
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Barb wrote:
Yes, I had googled and learned that other sources are taking the place of newsgroups. I'd been in this group along time and really hate to give it up. I don't do facebook or twitter and don't know what forums are replacing this nice newsgroup. Barb Well, you, (and anyone else) can always talk about cats with me. My email address is good as it stands. As near as I can tell, any group of people can get together and form their own "newsgroup" to talk about anything they want to talk about. |
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Okay, thanks!
Barb |
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"dgk" wrote in message ... Newsgroups as a whole are dying because of various forums and facebook and such. But as long as some of us use it, it will still be here until the corporations decide that they don't want to spend money on it. My ISP used to have their own newgroup servers but they ditched them and made anyone who wanted to use them use Giganews. Well, they got us a discount for Giganews. I read on another Forum that all the ISP's stopped providing Usenet NGs because of the cost and time involved with people complaining about out people and spammers. |
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