Redirection

[Dan Marotta]

Killing time before breakfast and heading to the airport and have a
basic computer question.

It seems that, with this site, clicking on a link opens a new tab with
a redirection notice. It's annoying to have to stop what I'm doing,
change tabs, and click on the link again.

Being new to google groups, I haven't seen such behavior on other
newsgroups. Can anyone tell me how to defeat this annoyance and call
up a link immediately?

[vaughn[_3_]]

"Dan Marotta" > wrote in message
...
> Being new to google groups, I haven't seen such behavior on other
> newsgroups. Can anyone tell me how to defeat this annoyance and call
> up a link immediately?

First you must understand that rec.aviation.soaring is NOT a Google group. You
are merely using Google Groups as a (terrible) web interface to read a Usenet
group. The best way to access RAS is with a real news client program (you
probably already have one in your computer, perhaps Outlook Express) and with a
free NNTP account at eternal-september.org.

The whole thing takes perhaps ten minutes to set up.

Vaughn

[Fred Blair[_2_]]

On Apr 17, 10:36*am, "vaughn" > wrote:
> "Dan Marotta" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > Being new to google groups, I haven't seen such behavior on other
> > newsgroups. *Can anyone tell me how to defeat this annoyance and call
> > up a link immediately?
>
> First you must understand *that rec.aviation.soaring is NOT a Google group. *You
> are merely using Google Groups as a (terrible) web interface to read a Usenet
> group. *The best way to access RAS is with a real news client program (you
> probably already have one in your computer, perhaps Outlook Express) and with a
> free NNTP account at eternal-september.org.
>
> The whole thing takes perhaps ten minutes to set up.
>
> Vaughn

How do you tell eternal-september.org that you want to see
rec.aviation.soaring, I don't see anything like that when I get to
their list.

Thanks,
Fred

[vaughn[_3_]]

"Fred Blair" > wrote in message
...
>How do you tell eternal-september.org that you want to see
>rec.aviation.soaring, I don't see anything like that when I get to
>their list.

In short, you don't tell Eternal-September what groups you want, you tell the
news reader program that probably already lives in your computer.

First, set up an account at Eternal-September. That gets you a password and
free access to their NNTP server On their site you will find instructions for
configuring your news reader. (If you have a windoze machine, that means
Outlook Express.)

Having done that, you will download a list of Usenet groups from Eternal
September into your news reader. Then simply choose rec-aviation-soaring plus
any other groups you may want.

Vaughn

[Dan Marotta]

"vaughn" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Fred Blair" > wrote in message
> ...
>>How do you tell eternal-september.org that you want to see
>>rec.aviation.soaring, I don't see anything like that when I get to
>>their list.
>
> In short, you don't tell Eternal-September what groups you want, you tell
> the news reader program that probably already lives in your computer.
>
> First, set up an account at Eternal-September. That gets you a password
> and free access to their NNTP server On their site you will find
> instructions for configuring your news reader. (If you have a windoze
> machine, that means Outlook Express.)
>
> Having done that, you will download a list of Usenet groups from Eternal
> September into your news reader. Then simply choose rec-aviation-soaring
> plus any other groups you may want.
>
> Vaughn
>
>
>
I was unable, using Thunderbird, to subscribe at Eternal-September because
my regular password does not meet their requirements. Not wanting to change
all my email server settings, I just started up Windoze Email that came with
Vista and subscribed that way. Thanks for the pointers - this looks like it
might be more useable than google once I get used to it.

[Tony V]

On 4/18/2011 10:26 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:

> I was unable, using Thunderbird, to subscribe at Eternal-September
> because my regular password does not meet their requirements. Not
> wanting to change all my email server settings,.....


I use free.terranews.com with Thunderbird and I certainly don't need to
use the same password as my email server settings. I suspect that you
don't need to with Eternal-September either.

Tony LS6-b "6N"

[Dan Marotta]

"Tony V" > wrote in message
...
> On 4/18/2011 10:26 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
>
>> I was unable, using Thunderbird, to subscribe at Eternal-September
>> because my regular password does not meet their requirements. Not
>> wanting to change all my email server settings,.....
>
>
> I use free.terranews.com with Thunderbird and I certainly don't need to
> use the same password as my email server settings. I suspect that you
> don't need to with Eternal-September either.
>
> Tony LS6-b "6N"

Well... Thunderbird would automatically send my email password to connect
to my ISP. I could not find a way (that doesn't mean there isn't a way, but
I couldn't find it) to make Thunderbird send a separate password to E-S.org.
It appeared to send my ISP password and that didn't meet their requirements.
Being basically lazy (see my leaching reply to Tom (5Z)) I just set up
Windows Mail to only sign it to Eternal-September. Of course, I had to
delete my email accounts from there, but no biggie.