Re: Was Google not working?

On Jul 21, 1:58 pm, Cory Albrecht <coryalbre...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ray Martinez wrote, On 2007/07/21 13:25:

On Jul 21, 3:38 am, nmp <addr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Op Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:35:47 -0700, schreef Ray Martinez:

Then how come none of your newsreader posts showed up for 2 days?
But they did. Just not on Google.

Nor on any search engine or access to the Net outside of your usenet
system, right?

The point is that the posts are only showing up on your newsreader
systems. If a person cannot access the Net and see the posts then the
posts are not posted online.

Doofus, one connects to Usenet most commonly these days via the 'Net.
Just like how the WWW is an application layered on top of the Internet,
the modern Usenet is similarly layered on top of the Internet.

When person uses Forte Free Agent, Thunderbird or any other newsreader
programme on their computer, they are connecting across the 'Net to a
news server. Because that newsserver is attached to the 'Net, it, and
all the posts currently stored on it, are one line. Google Groups is
simply a web interface to an archive postings of various types,
including Usenet posts.

Google Groups is not the only archive of Usenet posts out there with a
web interface. Just because Google was having problems does not mean
that any of those other archives were having problems. The onbe athttp://services.mail2web.com/FreeServices/Usenet/as just fine, as washttp://mailgate.dada.net/talk/talk.origins/, and there is more than just
them.

Just because a single web interface was down does not mean the posts
were not online or did not exist. Or do you then that when teh on-ramp
to your local highways is closed (accident, construction whatever), that
all on-ramps everywhere are also close and the highway system is shut
down?

So, Ray, if you want to continue on showing that not only are you
cluelessabout science, but also about what Usenet and newsgroups
actually are and also how the Internet works, just keep doign what
you're doing.

Finally, a computer geek falls for all the throw-a-way dialogue in
this "topic."

Who the *** cares, Cory?

I spend my time studying evidence, not how the Net or computers work.

Ray




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