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    From Maurice@2:250/1 to All on Mon Aug 10 12:19:30 2020
    testing...





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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Mon Aug 10 12:29:36 2020
    On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:19:30 -0400, Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    testing...

    Before bittwister adds his usual reply that this is not a test newsgroup, this test was specifically to confirm access to alt.os.linux.mageia is working using
    eternal-september rather then gmane as Maurice was previously using.

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    From: Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>

    It's working. :-)

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Mon Aug 10 15:37:22 2020
    On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:29:36 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:19:30 -0400, Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>
    wrote:

    testing...

    Before bittwister adds his usual reply that this is not a test newsgroup,
    this
    test was specifically to confirm access to alt.os.linux.mageia is working
    using
    eternal-september rather then gmane as Maurice was previously using.

    I hear where you are coming from, but any test to any of the 300+ other than eternal-September is good enough to prove access to all groups.


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  • From Maurice@2:250/1 to All on Mon Aug 10 19:17:44 2020
    On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:29:36 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:

    was specifically to confirm access to alt.os.linux.mageia is working
    using eternal-september rather then gmane

    The other newsgroup problem was the change of name of the gmane server in January from 'gmane.org' to 'gmane.io':

    e.g. https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg494875.html

    - of which I was totally unaware...

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Aug 11 03:07:07 2020
    On 10/8/20 9:19 pm, Maurice wrote:
    testing...


    I know where you are coming from The newsgroup is very quiet.

    I was tempted to post a couple of days ago just to see it come up.

    But I new that Bits would be vigilant :-)


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  • From santo@2:250/1 to All on Tue Aug 11 14:45:15 2020
    On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:07:07 +1000, faeychild wrote:

    On 10/8/20 9:19 pm, Maurice wrote:
    testing...


    I know where you are coming from The newsgroup is very quiet.

    I was tempted to post a couple of days ago just to see it come up.

    But I new that Bits would be vigilant :-)

    the days when there were many newbies
    like me which kept the group alive long time ago are over...
    ( mandrake 9.3)
    I am the only one left and now all are experts...
    ;-)

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Tue Aug 11 15:33:56 2020
    On 8/11/20 6:45 AM, santo wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:07:07 +1000, faeychild wrote:

    On 10/8/20 9:19 pm, Maurice wrote:
    testing...


    I know where you are coming from The newsgroup is very quiet.

    I was tempted to post a couple of days ago just to see it come up.

    But I new that Bits would be vigilant :-)

    the days when there were many newbies
    like me which kept the group alive long time ago are over...
    ( mandrake 9.3)
    I am the only one left and now all are experts...
    ;-)

    Well hardly but most new users or would be users have trouble
    getting bootable media these days at least where I live, contact however fleeting is discouraged. Downloading and burning to media is not for
    new users but we see some at PCLinux Forum. There they find help from simple-minded users like myself who have a little knowledge or the
    creators of maintainers of the distribution, people on the level of
    BitTorrent and a few others.

    The Ubuntu group is a bit more active as the users find that
    they have forgotten to update in 6-8 years! That includes people
    who don't seem to have the vocabulary to do a net search for the
    thousands of lines of help files that Ubuntu has up.

    Usenet is dead because it never advanced beyond text and
    many sites have pictures illustrating simple procedures that in
    text seem recondite and impenatrable to the non-experienced.\

    IMO of course.
    And I like Usenet because it is where I learned about my Amiga
    Oh so many years ago with experts posting about how to do this and that.

    bliss

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  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Tue Aug 11 17:06:58 2020
    On 11/08/2020 15:33, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
    On 8/11/20 6:45 AM, santo wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:07:07 +1000, faeychild wrote:

    On 10/8/20 9:19 pm, Maurice wrote:
    testing...


    I know where you are coming from The newsgroup is very quiet.

    I was tempted to post a couple of days ago just to see it come up.

       But I new that Bits would be vigilant  :-)

    the days when there were  many newbies
    like me which kept the group alive long time ago are over...
    ( mandrake 9.3)
    I am the only one left and now all are experts...
    ;-)

        Well hardly but most new users or would be users have trouble getting bootable media these days at least where I live, contact however fleeting is discouraged.  Downloading and burning to media is not for
    new users but we see some at PCLinux Forum.  There they find help from simple-minded users like myself who have a little knowledge or the
    creators of maintainers of the distribution, people on the level of BitTorrent and a few others.

        The Ubuntu group is a bit more active as the users find that
    they have forgotten to update in 6-8 years!  That includes people
    who don't seem to have the vocabulary to do a net search for the
    thousands of lines of help files that Ubuntu has up.

        Usenet is dead because it never advanced beyond text and
    many sites have pictures illustrating simple procedures that in
    text seem recondite and impenatrable to the non-experienced.\

        IMO of course.
        And I like Usenet because it is where I learned about my Amiga
    Oh so many years ago with experts posting about how to do this and that.

        bliss


    Still lots of mileage in Usenet - I particularly like "Friday Finking"
    at comp.lang.python,and BT's scripts can be very useful.
    Can't stand the YouTube videos demonstrating things. I like to read
    words, 'cos it gives me chance to digest the content. View of an old
    fashioned programmer (remember the cartoon picture of a lavatory with
    the caption "The job isn't finished until the paper work is done"?)
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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Aug 11 22:44:25 2020
    On 12/8/20 2:06 am, Grimble wrote:

    fashioned programmer (remember the cartoon picture of a lavatory with
    the caption "The job isn't finished until the paper work is done"?)

    Mine is a cartoon of a bespectacled, lab coated boffin speaking to a
    snotty reporter.

    "If we KNEW what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research!"


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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Wed Aug 12 12:54:19 2020
    On 8/10/20 10:07 PM, faeychild wrote:
    On 10/8/20 9:19 pm, Maurice wrote:
    testing...


    I know where you are coming from The newsgroup is very quiet.

    I was tempted to post a couple of days ago just to see it come up.

     But I new that Bits would be vigilant  :-)


    Best way to avoid being scolded is to come up with a legitimate-sounding on-topic question, and use that as a "test."

    TJ

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  • From santo@2:250/1 to All on Wed Aug 12 15:11:54 2020
    On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:33:56 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:



    There they find help from
    simple-minded users like myself who have a little knowledge or the
    creators of maintainers of the distribution, people on the level of BitTorrent and a few others.

    Surely you meant BitTwister
    ;-

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Wed Aug 12 15:30:00 2020
    On 8/12/20 7:11 AM, santo wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:33:56 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:



    There they find help from
    simple-minded users like myself who have a little knowledge or the
    creators of maintainers of the distribution, people on the level of
    BitTorrent and a few others.

    Surely you meant BitTwister
    ;-


    Of course I did.
    Now worrying about my memory which has failed the test.
    bliss

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Wed Aug 12 15:30:25 2020
    On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:11:54 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:33:56 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:



    There they find help from
    simple-minded users like myself who have a little knowledge or the
    creators of maintainers of the distribution, people on the level of
    BitTorrent and a few others.

    Surely you meant BitTwister

    Not me. I am not even a maintainer, let alone anyone who developed
    apps like BitTorrent. :)


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