Hi Horace, Glad to be of help! Looks like you cancelled the extra Usenet articles, unless Google's problems prevented them from posting in the first place.
In any case, Google Groups is now totally up to date. You'd think they'd check it every hour or so (or write a script to do it automatically), since the failure occurs a couple times a year, but I guess they don't. So it seems like a good idea for several people to call up when it happens and insist that the operator tell somebody in the Groups department that it isn't updating, so she'll realize that Google really does have a problem and she'll tell them. If you (or anyone else here) want to access Usenet via some other provider, and have any questions, feel free to contact me. Usenet was the principal one-to-many Internet communication service -- broadcast Freedom of Speech for the non-wealthy that could actually reach large numbers of people -- before the Web was invented. It originally employed the UUCP system -- automatic transmission of messages via dialup modem -- before there even was an Internet, or at least before most people could access the Internet, because there were no ISPs back then, and only universities and the government were connected. One big advantage of Usenet over the Web is that it's the standard central place for world communication about every subject imaginable, and for each subject there are usually only a few newsgroups appropriate to it, so you know where to look (and post). Google's search facility is also very helpful. The current unelected U.S. government would certainly like to censor the Internet; two bills to do that have already been introduced, and it could also be done by executive order. They don't want people to get the evidence that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by the U.S. and Israeli governments, not those Arab patsies, that the reasons given for attacking Iraq were lies, and that the last two presidential elections were rigged. They want all broadcasting to be done via the corporate media, which are owned by the same ruling class that controls the government. So we might end up having to return to UUCP and Usenet, for communications critical to human survival. Don't throw away those old modems, folks! Mark On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:46:54AM -0800, Horace Heffner wrote: >On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:19 AM, Mark S Bilk wrote: > >>On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:51:54PM -0800, Horace Heffner wrote: >>>Thank you very much for checking this out. It will probably be a bit >>>embarassing to folks like me who kept posting the same stuff over and >>>over - when it eventually all comes to the surface. >> >>You're very welcome! You may be able to delete the extra posts. >>Usenet has a "cancel" mechanism for doing that. > >[snip wonderfully useful information (to me anyway)] > >I just posted a response to you not having read this post. This is >really great stuff. Thanks again. > >Horace Heffner >http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > >
