alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter user name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does any one know whom the actually host of this newsgroup is?
"Michael Kenefick" <michael_kenefick@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:47951B7E.6000207@sbcglobal.net... > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter user > name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does any one know > whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? Unmoderated newsgroups don't have a centraly controlling host.
Michael Kenefick wrote: > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter user > name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does any one know > whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? Usenet. You need to ask this in news.newusers.questions. -- If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.
Michael Kenefick <michael_kenefick@sbcglobal.net> wrote in news:47951B7E.6000207@sbcglobal.net: > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making > me re-enter user name and password, then still not connecting. > What a pain. Does any one know whom the actually host of > this newsgroup is? > No such animal. The server you're having problems with is the one you're connecting to. The rest of us probably aren't connecting to it. Google "usenet message propagation" to learn how Usenet works. -- }:-) Christopher Jahn {:-( http://soflatheatre.blogspot.com/ If opportunity knocks, go to bed with your pants on.
Christopher Jahn wrote: > Michael Kenefick <michael_kenefick@sbcglobal.net> wrote in > news:47951B7E.6000207@sbcglobal.net: > >> alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making >> me re-enter user name and password, then still not connecting. >> What a pain. Does any one know whom the actually host of >> this newsgroup is? >> > > No such animal. The server you're having problems with is the > one you're connecting to. The rest of us probably aren't > connecting to it. I was gonna guess he was connecting through one of those website "forums". -- If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.
The problem is with your internet provider and not with alt.genealogy. However, to answer your question, googlegroups owns/controls the usenet newsgroups, so if you have difficulties getting the newsgroup via your internet provider, then you can go to googlegroups, search for alt.genealogy and read there. I think you have to register with googlegroups in order to reply to a message, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Be warned that if you do go to use alt.genealogy via googlegroups, you'll see a heck of a lot of spam. Cathy Michael Kenefick wrote: > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter > user name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does > any one know whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? >
Huntersglenn <huntersglenn@cox.net> wrote in news:fK9lj.33569$Ft5.9009@newsfe15.lga: > However, to answer your question, googlegroups owns/controls > the usenet newsgroups, No, it doesn't. No one does. Interesting unfounded wild-assed guess, though. -- }:-) Christopher Jahn {:-( http://soflatheatre.blogspot.com/ If opportunity knocks, go to bed with your pants on.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:17:09 -0500, Huntersglenn <huntersglenn@cox.net> wrote: >The problem is with your internet provider and not with alt.genealogy. >However, to answer your question, googlegroups owns/controls the usenet >newsgroups, so if you have difficulties getting the newsgroup via your >internet provider, then you can go to googlegroups, search for >alt.genealogy and read there. I think you have to register with >googlegroups in order to reply to a message, but I'm not 100% sure on >that. Be warned that if you do go to use alt.genealogy via >googlegroups, you'll see a heck of a lot of spam. > >Cathy > Google neither owns nor controls usenet, but is one of many news servers. It does keep messages indefinitely, unlike most other news servers. -- Jane
In message <fK9lj.33569$Ft5.9009@newsfe15.lga> Huntersglenn <huntersglenn@cox.net> wrote: > The problem is with your internet provider and not with alt.genealogy. > However, to answer your question, googlegroups owns/controls the usenet > newsgroups, No they do not, however much they'd like you to think they do. Googlegroups is merely a way of accessing newsposts via a web interface instead of using a proper newsreader. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>
Huntersglenn wrote: > The problem is with your internet provider and not with alt.genealogy. > However, to answer your question, googlegroups owns/controls the usenet > newsgroups, simply untrue usenet predates all the search engines and www google is the new boy on the block after altavista search dejanews was an archive service which ran out of money and was off line for a year google bought it and improved it and turned it into google groups and initiatd a search for more historical documents archived elswhere and added them >>so if you have difficulties getting the newsgroup via your > internet provider, then you can go to googlegroups, search for > alt.genealogy and read there. I think you have to register with > googlegroups in order to reply to a message, but I'm not 100% sure on > that. Be warned that if you do go to use alt.genealogy via > googlegroups, you'll see a heck of a lot of spam. > > Cathy > > Michael Kenefick wrote: >> alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me >> re-enter user name and password, then still not connecting. What a >> pain. Does any one know whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? >> in July 1999 >> Google, still in beta, has, for most purposes, the most powerful search engine on the web. << I started on usenet in february 1996 it had already been in use since 1981 UMAN-NETS Digest V3 #103 Group: fa.human-nets The Post Office has two technical approaches it has been working on for electronic mail. The first to go into service (scheduled for Jan '82) is Electronic Computer ... directly to the SPO and the Post Office will print it and put it in the mail stream. You can also walk in off the street, to one of the 25 SPOs, ... May 20 1981 Berkley and a UNIX box "If I could get the MIT people to adhere to the netnews protocol and pretend to be a usenet site (or to even BE a usenet site) things would be much simpler. For the MIT people, this means (1) all mail to a digest would have a copy sent to a mailbox at, say, MC, which would forward it to Berkeley with a return address at MC. (E.g. lauren@ucla-s@mc would do, if such an address works.) News from Berkeley which did not come from this mailbox would be sent to some other mailbox at MC (or any address, really). " >> I am toying with the idea of changing the names USENET (the network itself) and netnews (the collection of software that implements netnews) both to "newsnet". The names of the individual programs in version B (inews, readnews, checknews) would not change, and I see no reason to change the program name "news" ... Oct 27 1981 << I think the google guys were still in short pants .-) Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) Sergey Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) enjoy Hugh W
It looks good now! -- Baal I smile and go off waving (Amiably) - for that's my way "Michael Kenefick" <michael_kenefick@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:47951B7E.6000207@sbcglobal.net... > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter > user name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does any > one know whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? > -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
In article <47951B7E.6000207@sbcglobal.net>, Michael Kenefick <michael_kenefick@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter user > name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does any one > know > whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? Some of the ATT/SBC usenet authentication servers have been misbehaving, they have been currently taken off line, and are being worked on. Things should be back to normal soon.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:23:58 -0500, Michael Kenefick wrote: > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter user > name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does any one know > whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? I've had no problems with the group. I use two different newsservers because one is playing up. It's telling me there is only one message in a particular group while the other says there's 248, which is correct. It's more likely the newsserver that's causing the problem since you're being asked for your name and password continually. You don't seem to be using a newsreader such as OE. If you were, I'd suggest that it had become corrupted in some way. I'd get on to your ISP or whichever newsserver you are using and ask them the same question: not the bit about who hosts the newsgroup though. I think that's been answered already :)) -- http://home.comcast.net/~webact1/Collingridge/
Michael Kenefick wrote: > alt.genealogy has been buggy for over 5 days. Always making me re-enter > user name and password, then still not connecting. What a pain. Does > any one know whom the actually host of this newsgroup is? > it is your ISP prodigy.net Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de! << one of the wolrds best servers (no binaries ) newshub.sdsu.edu! newscon04.news.prodigy.net! prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net! prodigy.com! postmaster.news.prodigy.com! nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com <<< or these guts well worth the money >>Welcome to News.Individual.NET « News.Individual.NET News feeds for individuals for a low annual fee. Text newsgroups only. The server is part of the computer center of the Free University of Berlin. www.individual.net/ << It is best to use a mail server eg mail.google.como or aol.com and a news server independant of your ISP so you can change ISP without hassle of new email settings and get the best priced connection as the market chan ges Hugh W