What's up with Google???

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
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.

Took over what?

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

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Don Poitras

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC), (Don Poitras) wrote in :

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
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.

Took over what?

I'm gonna speculate that he's talking about the late,
great DejaNews, whose archives were taken over by
Google in 2001.

DejaNews archived newsgroups and provided a search
engine from around 1995 to 2001.

http://groups.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=timeline.html

I'm personally very grateful for the services Google
provides. Usenet would be a vastly poorer place without
Google. But I understand the hankering on the part of
some to go back to the glory days before Google--or before
DejaNews--when only the best and brightest could figure out
how to find and follow newsgroups. I'm from the September
that Never Ended era myself, so I've only heard about those
halcyon days from grizzled and somewhat cranky elders.

Marty
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC), (Don
Poitras) wrote:

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
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.

Took over what?

These news groups. I've forgotten the name of the group that had them
before Google, but they were in a much better format, easier to group
and read. It's been a few years back but I'm sure many on here
remember.



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

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

On 31 Oct 2006 09:21:54 -0800, "Randy Aldous"
wrote:


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...

Some default news readers such as Outlook and Outlook Express use Word
for post composition. I never used it with OE, but it was there. I
now use Agent (regular, not free). Outlook and OE are both good
readers and are safe it all the fancy stuff like HTML and running
macros is turned off.

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. :-) )

The problem may not be with Google's site. The net has been rather
heavily loaded for the past few days and a tremendous upsurge in spam
the last week or two. I've found some sites I regularly use were
timing out before I could connect. Even the weather was slow to
connect and download. Some sites that *normally* load in a second or
two were loading progressively with just enough stuff showing up
they'd not time out, but would take one or two minutes to fully load.
Some never did make it completely.

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