Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-13 Thread chicagofan
For everyone tired of reading about this I thought I would report my SUCCESS! ;) I deleted everything to do with the Mozilla server, cleared my SM cache, shut down SM, and started over. For some reason, this time eternal-september.org set up as it should have earlier. I still don't know w

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-13 Thread sean nathan bean
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: sean nathan bean wrote: ps: enabling access to eternal-september.org is a multi step process... but there's not much there worth being read anymore... You wrote that as if it's Eternal-September's fault! ;-) It's not. but it is the way all of Usenet is going,

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-13 Thread sean nathan bean
chicagofan wrote: sean nathan bean wrote: chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't w

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-13 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
sean nathan bean wrote: > ps: enabling access to eternal-september.org is a multi step process... > but there's not much there worth being read anymore... You wrote that as if it's Eternal-September's fault! ;-) It's not. but it is the way all of Usenet is going, no matter which news server yo

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
sean nathan bean wrote: chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling y

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread sean nathan bean
chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it got at time

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
Lance Courtland wrote: chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling yo

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread Lance Courtland
chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it got at time

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
JD wrote: chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
David H. Durgee wrote: chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling yo

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: chicagofan wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: chicagofan wrote: ..and both have text and symbols that are almost illegible for these old eyes. Fixing that would be a matter of tweaking operating system settings to something you like. I've adjusted the Win

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread JD
chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it got at time

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
chicagofan wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> chicagofan wrote: >>> ..and both have text and symbols that are almost illegible for these >>> old eyes. >> >> Fixing that would be a matter of tweaking operating system settings to >> something you like. > > I've adjusted the Win7 settings as

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread David H. Durgee
chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it got at time

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
km wrote: chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: chicagofan wrote: ..and both have text and symbols that are almost illegible for these old eyes. Fixing that would be a matter of tweaking operating system settings to something you like. I've adjusted the Win7 settings as much as I can, but SM reduces to 75%

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread km
chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it got at time

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread km
chicagofan wrote: I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it got at time

Re: SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
chicagofan wrote: > ..and both have text and symbols that are almost illegible for these > old eyes. Fixing that would be a matter of tweaking operating system settings to something you like. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high

SM 2.7 - Anyone using news servers besides Mozilla server?

2012-02-12 Thread chicagofan
I don't know if it's because I added the Mozilla server first, which worked OK for awhile, but when I tried to add eternal-september.org all I could get was a news account with no connection. Couldn't download newsgroups, and I won't waste time telling you how bad it got at times. I just need