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Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
And Earthlink tech support either doesn't know or won't admit it.
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Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 04:41:18 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote: And Earthlink tech support either doesn't know or won't admit it. Which is one reason I left Earthlink and set up my own server. It's nothing new. How does a mere mortal set up his own server? jim |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
"jiminfl" wrote in message ups.com... Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 04:41:18 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote: And Earthlink tech support either doesn't know or won't admit it. Which is one reason I left Earthlink and set up my own server. It's nothing new. How does a mere mortal set up his own server? jim Tom's not a mere mortal. He's an alien. Eisboch |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Eisboch wrote: "jiminfl" wrote in message ups.com... Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 04:41:18 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote: And Earthlink tech support either doesn't know or won't admit it. Which is one reason I left Earthlink and set up my own server. It's nothing new. How does a mere mortal set up his own server? jim Tom's not a mere mortal. He's an alien. Eisboch I'm still waiting for him so send a message back to me here on Earth. Jim |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
"jiminfl" wrote in message ups.com... I'm still waiting for him so send a message back to me here on Earth. Jim Guess what? Down 25.8 lbs since Oct 23. |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Harry Krause wrote: On 12/9/2006 9:43 AM, Eisboch wrote: "jiminfl" wrote in message ups.com... I'm still waiting for him so send a message back to me here on Earth. Jim Guess what? Down 25.8 lbs since Oct 23. Circumcision? decapitation? |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... On 12/9/2006 9:43 AM, Eisboch wrote: "jiminfl" wrote in message ups.com... I'm still waiting for him so send a message back to me here on Earth. Jim Guess what? Down 25.8 lbs since Oct 23. Circumcision? LOL. I don't want to brag ..... Eisboch |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
"Tim" wrote in message oups.com... Harry Krause wrote: On 12/9/2006 9:43 AM, Eisboch wrote: "jiminfl" wrote in message ups.com... I'm still waiting for him so send a message back to me here on Earth. Jim Guess what? Down 25.8 lbs since Oct 23. Circumcision? decapitation? Worse. The beer belly that took me 40 years to build. Starting to notice little things, like.... I picked up a 20lb bag of dog food at the supermarket the other day and was carrying it on my shoulder across the parking lot to my truck that was parked quite a ways from the entrance/exit. About halfway to the truck the bag was getting a bit heavy and it dawned on me that 2 months ago I was carrying the equivalent weight of the bag all the time. Eisboch |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Eisboch wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message oups.com... Harry Krause wrote: On 12/9/2006 9:43 AM, Eisboch wrote: "jiminfl" wrote in message egroups.com... I'm still waiting for him so send a message back to me here on Earth. Jim Guess what? Down 25.8 lbs since Oct 23. Circumcision? decapitation? Worse. The beer belly that took me 40 years to build. Starting to notice little things, like.... I picked up a 20lb bag of dog food at the supermarket the other day and was carrying it on my shoulder across the parking lot to my truck that was parked quite a ways from the entrance/exit. About halfway to the truck the bag was getting a bit heavy and it dawned on me that 2 months ago I was carrying the equivalent weight of the bag all the time. Eisboch Twenty pounds?? Sure it wasn't 20 kilograms? |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Eisboch wrote: "jiminfl" wrote in message ups.com... I'm still waiting for him so send a message back to me here on Earth. Jim Guess what? Down 25.8 lbs since Oct 23. Congratulations. Before you know it you'll be able to fit into the ol' bell-bottoms again. |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 06:07:04 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 04:41:18 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote: And Earthlink tech support either doesn't know or won't admit it. Which is one reason I left Earthlink and set up my own server. It's nothing new. How does a mere mortal set up his own server? A number of different ways. One, you can do it on your own by putting up a dedicated server on your address, pay the fee for the domain name (like jiminfl.com) and get the URl propogated which takes about a week. At that point, you can move around, set up your own news feed, anything you want to do within the limits of your server. Or... You can set up with a company that provides web space like Lunarpages. Or... You can pay for unlimited access to Usenet using one of the news groups out there. I use Easynews as a feeder to my own domain - great deal and it works very well. Never had any downtime. Much too complicated for me to deal with. You lost me with propigating Urls, setting up news feeds, my server, web space. Have a Happy, Joyous, and Merry __________________ Jim |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Or you can just use google groups over the web for free.
Gene wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 17:43:14 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote: You can pay for unlimited access to Usenet using one of the news groups out there. I use Easynews as a feeder to my own domain - great deal and it works very well. Never had any downtime. Much too complicated for me to deal with. You lost me with propigating Urls, setting up news feeds, my server, web space. Have a Happy, Joyous, and Merry __________________ Jim Let's try it a little easier. AFAIK, there are only two ways to obtain USENET news.... an "IHAVE" feed, which you are going to have to pay some really big bucks for and is really for USENET servers that have lots of subscribers (you aren't going to want to go this way), or a "Dynamic Suck Feed", which is kinda like your newsreader on steroids. It is just a program, resident on your computer, that downloads USENET posts from 1 or more remote servers. (Actually, you set it up a lot like your own news reader.) Then..... and this is the only difference... your news reader downloads from *your* server rather than *theirs*. Now, I set up my own news server so that I could have incredibly configurable filtering when this newsgroup hit the wall a couple of years ago with the rep/dem/blue/red/he sucks/they suck posts. I also found it convenient that it merged the feeds of multiple servers. That is no longer required since I use a news client that will download from multiple servers, but I do keep the server running so I have access outside my ISP's local domain and for the filter attributes. If you are looking for better overall performance.... the easiest (by far) and cheapest way to go about that is to find a decent news provider. (Let them do all of the hard stuff.) This would be my personal recommendation..... $6.00/mo and reliable, rock solid service: http://www.usenet-access.com/ -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Yea, but earthlink's news servers are out maybe 10 days a year so
during that time you can use google for free. The rest of the time you use earthlink for free. Or you can do what you did and spend hours of your own time settting stuff up and pay an additional monthly subscription for something most isp's include with your regular fee. I'll do the first. Gene wrote: On 11 Dec 2006 09:43:00 -0800, "jamesgangnc" wrote: Or you can just use google groups over the web for free. Gene wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 17:43:14 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote: You can pay for unlimited access to Usenet using one of the news groups out there. I use Easynews as a feeder to my own domain - great deal and it works very well. Never had any downtime. Much too complicated for me to deal with. You lost me with propigating Urls, setting up news feeds, my server, web space. Have a Happy, Joyous, and Merry __________________ Jim Let's try it a little easier. AFAIK, there are only two ways to obtain USENET news.... an "IHAVE" feed, which you are going to have to pay some really big bucks for and is really for USENET servers that have lots of subscribers (you aren't going to want to go this way), or a "Dynamic Suck Feed", which is kinda like your newsreader on steroids. It is just a program, resident on your computer, that downloads USENET posts from 1 or more remote servers. (Actually, you set it up a lot like your own news reader.) Then..... and this is the only difference... your news reader downloads from *your* server rather than *theirs*. Now, I set up my own news server so that I could have incredibly configurable filtering when this newsgroup hit the wall a couple of years ago with the rep/dem/blue/red/he sucks/they suck posts. I also found it convenient that it merged the feeds of multiple servers. That is no longer required since I use a news client that will download from multiple servers, but I do keep the server running so I have access outside my ISP's local domain and for the filter attributes. If you are looking for better overall performance.... the easiest (by far) and cheapest way to go about that is to find a decent news provider. (Let them do all of the hard stuff.) This would be my personal recommendation..... $6.00/mo and reliable, rock solid service: http://www.usenet-access.com/ -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- The rational response to that is (1) that is what he is currently doing and since he asked for further information, I assumed he wasn't terribly happy with it, (2) google is clumsy in operation, (3) offers no filtering which is a real PITA if you get tired of reading trolls, and (4) google makes an incredible mess, such as the above posting that didn't even drop a properly formatted signature...... .... maybe you get what you pay for! -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Gene wrote: Let's try it a little easier. AFAIK, there are only two ways to obtain USENET news.... an "IHAVE" feed, which you are going to have to pay some really big bucks for and is really for USENET servers that have lots of subscribers (you aren't going to want to go this way), or a "Dynamic Suck Feed", which is kinda like your newsreader on steroids. It is just a program, resident on your computer, that downloads USENET posts from 1 or more remote servers. (Actually, you set it up a lot like your own news reader.) Then..... and this is the only difference... your news reader downloads from *your* server rather than *theirs*. Now, I set up my own news server so that I could have incredibly configurable filtering when this newsgroup hit the wall a couple of years ago with the rep/dem/blue/red/he sucks/they suck posts. I also found it convenient that it merged the feeds of multiple servers. That is no longer required since I use a news client that will download from multiple servers, but I do keep the server running so I have access outside my ISP's local domain and for the filter attributes. If you are looking for better overall performance.... the easiest (by far) and cheapest way to go about that is to find a decent news provider. (Let them do all of the hard stuff.) This would be my personal recommendation..... $6.00/mo and reliable, rock solid service: http://www.usenet-access.com/ -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- Thanks Gene, I'll save your suggestion as a backup solution. I found freetext.usenetserver.com It's read only, but I can live with that. It runs under Outlook Express so I don't have to reconfigure filters. If I want to post I can always go to Google to do my needleing or whatever. I hope you dont mind if I wish you a Merry Christmas. Jim |
Earthlink newsgroup server is down as of 3:40 PM Friday
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:29:31 -0500, Gene Kearns wrote: Let's try it a little easier. AFAIK, there are only two ways to obtain USENET news.... . And what you said was different from what I said how? Don't get your lines all knotted up, now. You were speaking on a plane I couldnt fathom. Gene translated into internet dummyese for me. May I be so bold as to wish you a Merry Christmas also? |
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