16 Sep
2007
16 Sep
'07
8:01 p.m.
This request is in respect of support for 20 year old DEC computer
software and hardware, specifically for running RT-11 on PDP-11
hardware. So I hope it can be considered to be on topic
I am using a newsgroups server that allows free read only access, but
once or twice a year, I would like to reply. The newsgroups that are
moderated allow me to send an e-mail directly to the moderator who
then posts the e-mail to that newsgroup.
I would like to post to vmsnet.pdp-11 and alt.sys.pdp11 - can anyone
suggest a server that is available? By the way, I only use Netscape
under Windows 98SE since other browsers don't seem to offer the
same flexibility in saving incoming and outgoing e-mails. If either of
these two newsgroups allow an e-mail to be sent to a moderator to
then have that e-mail posted to the newsgroup, I would appreciate
the e-mail address.
I have heard that google allows posts to newsgroups, but the interface
is so impossible to use as compared with Netscape that I have not
even tried.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
17 Sep
17 Sep
1:37 a.m.
Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I have heard that google allows posts to newsgroups, but the interface
is so impossible to use as compared with Netscape that I have not
even tried.
Google will let you reply to usenet postings if you sign in. That
becomes visible to the internet, but you can create an account for that
purpose and post using it. I went to alt.test w/o any problem there.
Only problem I saw as the above requirement to post an email address, so
use it with care. The interface was quite simple and simpler than
posting thru a news reader.
This probably is off topic, so please follow up to me via email, if any
further discussion is required.
A lot of documentation and information gets posted on
alt.binaries.ebook.technical, which makes it somewhat on topic, though a
lot of that content is reflected from Bitsavers or other listmembers sites.
Jim
2:20 p.m.
This thread is off-topic so please forgive my posting this follow-up.
I'm doing so in the hope that the information may prove to be of use
to more than just the OP. For free read and write access to the
Usenet, visit the following:
<http://news.aioe.org/>
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2:52 p.m.
Golan Klinger wrote:
This thread is off-topic so please forgive my posting
this follow-up.
It actually got me wondering when apps started really pushing (or forcing)
functionality on users outside of their core reason for existing (such as a
web browser trying to be an email client, or an email client trying to be a
usenet client etc.)
I suspect that aspect *is* on topic :-) Netscape circa mid-90's is one of the
first culprits I can think of, but doubtless there were others long before
then? (Note I'm not talking about small bundled utility apps or functionality
which is related to the central purpose of an application - more the cases
where something that was recognised as doing one job suddenly branched out and
started offering something completely different)
[Not a practice that I agree with at all - memory and disk footprint often
increases, and stability goes down, all for extra functionality which a
separate dedicated app nearly always handles better]
19 Sep
19 Sep
4:36 p.m.
Jerome,
Your ISP should provide access to an NNTP server as part of your basic
service. I just tried to connect to VMSNet groups via my ISP's server
using Thunderbird as the client and it worked. The pdp-11 group seems to
be the only one that is still active.
Jim
Jules Richardson wrote:
Golan Klinger wrote:
This thread is off-topic so please forgive my
posting this follow-up.
It actually got me wondering when apps started really pushing (or
forcing) functionality on users outside of their core reason for
existing (such as a web browser trying to be an email client, or an
email client trying to be a usenet client etc.)
I suspect that aspect *is* on topic :-) Netscape circa mid-90's is one
of the first culprits I can think of, but doubtless there were others
long before then? (Note I'm not talking about small bundled utility
apps or functionality which is related to the central purpose of an
application - more the cases where something that was recognised as
doing one job suddenly branched out and started offering something
completely different)
[Not a practice that I agree with at all - memory and disk footprint
often increases, and stability goes down, all for extra functionality
which a separate dedicated app nearly always handles better]
20 Sep
20 Sep
4:56 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:01:46PM -0400, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I would like to post to vmsnet.pdp-11 and
alt.sys.pdp11 - can anyone
suggest a server that is available? By the way, I only use Netscape
http://www.newsservers.net/
http://freenews.maxbaud.net/
I have heard that google allows posts to newsgroups,
but the interface
[...]
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Suggestions: please, please, please, do not use Google to make the
newsgroups dirty. :-)
Cheers,
Angel
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9:51 p.m.
Angel Martin Alganza wrote:
Suggestions: please, please, please, do not use Google
to make the
newsgroups dirty. :-)
That makes no sense. I post using Google all the time, and my posts now
are as they have been for the past 20-odd years: 80-column word-wrapped
ASCII. Google doesn't muck up the posts, unless you know something I don't.
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