Re: David Iain Greig's little game is over

On Mon, 21 May 2007 15:22:42 -0700, Dustan wrote:

On May 21, 9:24 am, eerok <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dustan wrote:
On May 21, 7:12 am, Tiny Bulcher <alycid...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 21, 12:16 pm, Dustan <DustanGro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry about the double-posting; Google Groups said it had failed
the first post.
Google Groups does not exhibit the appearance of design.
I have gotten rather frustrated with Google Groups lately, after it
took them 5 weeks to fix an auto-reply bug. If you know of any
newsgroups that have a similar interface (threaded, allows viewing 'as
a tree' - by the replies) with fewer bugs, I'm all ears.

Have you tried using any nntp-based newsreaders?

You lost me. Acronym Finder didn't help either:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/acronym.aspx?rec={955CBD97-89E8-11D4-8351-00C04FC2C2BF}
http://preview.tinyurl.com/27yh43
Pardon my ignorance, but I can't begin to fathom what that means.


Net News Transfer Protocol, as I see others have told you. Judging
from the headers on your message, you're on Earthlink, is that right?
If so, check their Customer Help pages and search for information
on "newsgroups" or "news server". I'm sure they have news servers.
In fact, here's their help page:
http://kb.earthlink.net/case.asp?article=4459 - they have two news
servers, one east and one west, and all Earthlink susbcribers have
access to both of them.

So next you should choose a newsreader and install it. Google for
Windows newsreader, or just go to
http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html .

Do not use Outlook Express. Use Forte Free Agent or Thunderbird
or Pan or anything else that strikes your fancy as long as it doesn't
have "Outlook" in its name. Using Outlook or Outlook Express will
cause your monitor to explode and fill the house with foul-smelling
greenish-yellow poisonous gas. Once you've installed a newsreader,
you have to set it up pretty much the way you set up a mailreader
to use Earthlink email (you must have gone through that process).
Somewhere on some menu there will be a "setup" option, and you
click that and it will bring up a page where you enter the news
server name (news.earthlink.east.net or news.earthlink.west.net)
and your Earthlink username and password. When you've done that,
the reader will connect to the server and download a list of
newsgroups - this may take a long time - and then you will want
to poke around and figure out how to subscribe to talk.origins,
and do that. "Subscribing" is really just telling the newsreader
program that you're interested in following a particular group,
but it makes your life a lot easier because you can work with
a short list of subscribed groups instead of the list of all
the groups your server carries; there may be thousands of
groups on your server.

It's really pretty easy, and it lets you plonk people, plus it
lets you feel (rightly) superior to all those clueless noobs
who use Google Groups.

If I've misread your headers and you're not on Earthlink,
the idea is still the same: check your ISP's Help pages and
see whether they provide a news server, and if they do, proceed
as above. If they don't, report back and we'll talk about
finding a real news server elsewhere.

John


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