Re: Where are my hip boots when I need them?

On Oct 15, 5:39 pm, "Marilyn" <return_to_sender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Peppermint Patty <cinderella...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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We will never disband, are you kidding?

I hope you are right. that is how I feel.

I don't have a killfile.  I have to use Google newsgroups.

No one really HAS to use Google Groups.

(It's a work computer and I dare not download anything or make any
major changes.)

Unless your IT department has it really nailed down, and company policy
forbids reading newsgroups anyway, there is probably a workaround.  Is
Outlook Express (which is a rudimentary newsgroup reader as well as a
mail client) installed on your computer?  If not, is there a USB port?
I carried Xnews with me on a thumb drive for a few years before I
retired, so that my article numbers could be the same at home and work.
Xnews will run from the USB drive without installing it on the computer..

Ah, see, now, that could be the problem here, couldn't it?  Many people can
access through Google from work because it's html and it's going through (if
I understand correctly) port 80.  I have the luxury of working from home
with my own connection, not through a company firewall, to send my files to
work, so this sort of thing doesn't affect me.  Don't NNTP servers generally
use port 119?  I just had this discussion with my husband because he was
trying to access our ISP's NNTP server from his work computer and he
couldn't do it.  I know that a lot of network admins will block port 119 to
prevent access.

It's frustrating and annoying but I can live with it for a while
longer.  I'm sure we all can.  It's not the first time and won't be
the last.

I see very few of these posts, thanks to Xnews' score and kill files.

Oh, yeah, I'll agree that Xnews is  very good.  I used to use it on my old
computer, just never downloaded it to the new one and am using Windows Mail
for newsgroups because I'm just plain lazy..

Has anyone using Google reported these posts?  I get tired
of doing that.  I don't think it does any good.

If Google cared about such things, they might have an "improper post"
button of some sort.

I think that some Google users still don't understand the difference between
Google groups that belong to Google and the wild and untamed groups that are
truly Usenet.  It's kind of like when AOL first made a gateway to Usenet (I
think this was back in either '94 or '95).  At that time I was a forum
leader there and we would see all kinds of complaints because members didn't
understand that they were essentially leaving AOL when they posted in a
Usenet group, that the groups didn't belong to AOL, that they weren't AOL
forums and AOL had zero control over them.

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not everybody has Outlook. My computer was custom built by thye
previous owner and they didn't install outlook so I do Have to use
google. I will look into Xnews. If it is free and easy to set up I
will use it.
signed
TDCMufassa
Keeper and Guardian of The Legend of the Lion King
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