What's up with Google???

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...
I tried to explain that to him already. He apparently just doesn't want
to
listen. There's absolutely no good reason he shouldn't be able to use the
news server account that he *already has* with his home Mediacom account,
even though he's connected through the Internet via his business Qwest DSL
account.

Not necessarily... With the various ISPs that I've had over the years, I've
noticed that they seem to restrict access to their news servers to only
people who are connecting through their own network... For example, when I'm
out of town and at a hotel, I am not able to connect to RoadRunner's news
servers, I have to use Google Groups instead... Since RR does not require
you to enter a user ID and password to connect to their news servers, I
believe that they do it this way to prevent people who are not RR customers
from being able to use their system... Some of the ISPs also do the same for
the SMTP servers... Kind of an inconvenience... Enough so that I finally
decided to just use Gmail as my primary email account... If I'm away from
home, I'll either use Google Groups or one of the free news servers for
USENET access...

Kingfish wrote:
3-4 times in the last week I've posted replies only to get the Oops!
message and that the page is unavailable (reply got wiped out). This
after a masterfully crafted & often witty response on my part which the
group was denied tongue-in-cheek mode off Seriously, is anyone else
seeing this? Most annoying...

DON't hit the back arrow, hit the reffresh button. tha back arrow will
kill off your witty response, while refresh will attempt to re-send the
info (and will most likeley ask you if you want to re-send the
information)

Kingfish wrote:
3-4 times in the last week I've posted replies only to get the Oops!
message and that the page is unavailable (reply got wiped out). This
after a masterfully crafted & often witty response on my part which the
group was denied tongue-in-cheek mode off Seriously, is anyone else
seeing this? Most annoying...


Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )


Randy

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...

I sometimes compose in Notepad, saving to a temp directory every now and
then, if it's a long post. Then C&P into whatever I'm posting with.

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Jose" wrote in message
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I sometimes compose in Notepad, saving to a temp directory every now and
then, if it's a long post. Then C&P into whatever I'm posting with.

Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Over TECO?

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Jose" wrote in message
t...
Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Over TECO?

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it
keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

TECO= Type Every Character Over

Haven't used it in 20 years...

John

"Jose" wrote in message
t...
Over TECO?

What can I say? I got spoiled by UNIX... I especially liked 'vi' over 'ed',
although I still use 'sed' for certain things that are easier with it...
Emacs was nice, but 'vi' was something that you could guarantee would be on
every UNIX machine... There might be better editors for a particular flavor
of UNIX, but why should you learn 20 different editors when 'vi' was there?
I stull use 'vi' today, whether I'm on a UNIX flavor box or on a PC...

TECO is still available if you want it though... For free, no less...

http://almy.us/teco.html

"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g
--
Jim in NC

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:45:31 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g

There actually are people left who post and read news groups ON
google? It wasn't too bad before Google took over, but it sure went
down hill in a hurry afterwards.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com