I'm sorry for the difficulties I've been inadvertently causing. Brian touched on them in https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.dsp/nj_RuGClmzc/discussion and elsewhere. I'm curious about how long the fragmentation has been happening. Many regular readers recall a long time when I didn't post at all, long enough to give some here concern about my well being. Both of my news servers had stopped recognizing me as a customer, and that is still the case. I finally resorted to groups.google despite its uncomfortable user interface. I have been using it since my "return to the land of the living", and now it appears that that portal has also gone bad on me. I'll try to get something working right before I next participate in an on-line discussion. I Hope to get my Thunderbird-Terranews handshake back on line soon. Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
A note of apology
Started by ●April 11, 2011
Reply by ●April 11, 20112011-04-11
On 2011-04-11 11:44:09 -0300, Jerry Avins said:> I'm sorry for the difficulties I've been inadvertently causing. Brian > touched on them in > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.dsp/nj_RuGClmzc/discussion and > elsewhere. I'm curious about how long the fragmentation has been > happening. Many regular readers recall a long time when I didn't post > at all, long enough to give some here concern about my well being. Both > of my news servers had stopped recognizing me as a customer, and that > is still the case. I finally resorted to groups.google despite its > uncomfortable user interface. I have been using it since my "return to > the land of the living", and now it appears that that portal has also > gone bad on me. I'll try to get something working right before I next > participate in an on-line discussion. > > I Hope to get my Thunderbird-Terranews handshake back on line soon. > > Jerry1. Look up Eternal-September (a good free news service) 2. Get a real newsreader (to avoid Google groups) Then you will have no more Google with its loads of spam.
Reply by ●April 11, 20112011-04-11
On 04/11/2011 07:44 AM, Jerry Avins wrote:> I'm sorry for the difficulties I've been inadvertently causing. Brian touched on them in https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.dsp/nj_RuGClmzc/discussion and elsewhere. I'm curious about how long the fragmentation has been happening. Many regular readers recall a long time when I didn't post at all, long enough to give some here concern about my well being. Both of my news servers had stopped recognizing me as a customer, and that is still the case. I finally resorted to groups.google despite its uncomfortable user interface. I have been using it since my "return to the land of the living", and now it appears that that portal has also gone bad on me. I'll try to get something working right before I next participate in an on-line discussion. > > I Hope to get my Thunderbird-Terranews handshake back on line soon.I can't speak for anyone else, but I was so happy to have you back that I wasn't saying anything. I thought you knew of the issues. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Do you need to implement control loops in software? "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" was written for you. See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
Reply by ●April 11, 20112011-04-11
Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:> I'm sorry for the difficulties I've been inadvertently causing.In addition to that, which I hadn't actually noticed. (If I remember the thread, then I don't look at the subject.) Your posts don't have line breaks at less than 80 columns. It is usual in posts to do that, and most newsreaders will add them in if they aren't there. As others have noted, there is eternal-september, which I use now that my previous news server went away. It seems to work well, and allows for the usual newsreader software. It does require an authentication process which some older newsreaders might not do, but most should work. -- glen
Reply by ●April 11, 20112011-04-11
On 4/11/2011 7:44 AM, Jerry Avins wrote:> I'm sorry for the difficulties I've been inadvertently causing. Brian touched on them in https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.dsp/nj_RuGClmzc/discussion and elsewhere. I'm curious about how long the fragmentation has been happening. Many regular readers recall a long time when I didn't post at all, long enough to give some here concern about my well being. Both of my news servers had stopped recognizing me as a customer, and that is still the case. I finally resorted to groups.google despite its uncomfortable user interface. I have been using it since my "return to the land of the living", and now it appears that that portal has also gone bad on me. I'll try to get something working right before I next participate in an on-line discussion. > > I Hope to get my Thunderbird-Terranews handshake back on line soon. > > JerryJerry, I'm using forteinc.com news servers now at $2.95/mo it's OK with me. I sent some notes re: how your messages look vs. mine and others. I don't know if that helps... Fred
Reply by ●April 12, 20112011-04-12
On Apr 11, 8:36�pm, Fred Marshall <fmarshallxremove_th...@acm.org> wrote: ...> I'm using forteinc.com news servers now at $2.95/mo it's OK with me.There are two servers I used to use, and both sied on me at around the same time. I don't think it's likely that yet another will work better than getting to the root of my difficulty.> I sent some notes re: how your messages look vs. mine and others. �I > don't know if that helps...I didn't see those. I switvhed to GG's old interface, which is (in my view) horrible.. Consider this a test to see if it fixes the threading. Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
Reply by ●April 13, 20112011-04-13
On 4/12/2011 7:55 PM, Jerry Avins wrote:> On Apr 11, 8:36 pm, Fred Marshall<fmarshallxremove_th...@acm.org> > wrote: > > ... > >> I'm using forteinc.com news servers now at $2.95/mo it's OK with me. > > There are two servers I used to use, and both sied on me at around the > same time. I don't think it's likely that yet another will work better > than getting to the root of my difficulty. > >> I sent some notes re: how your messages look vs. mine and others. I >> don't know if that helps... > > I didn't see those. I switvhed to GG's old interface, which is (in my > view) horrible.. Consider this a test to see if it fixes the > threading. > > Jerry > -- > Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.Jerry, This reply of yours didn't split out and the Reply To is not in the source. Looks like that works. My ISP stopped supporting usenet so that's why I switched to forteinc. Fred
Reply by ●April 13, 20112011-04-13
On Apr 13, 12:42�am, Fred Marshall <fmarshallxremove_th...@acm.org> wrote: ...> This reply of yours didn't split out and the Reply To is not in the > source. �Looks like that works. > > My ISP stopped supporting usenet so that's why I switched to forteinc.Thanks, Fred. Grrr! Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
Reply by ●April 13, 20112011-04-13
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:55:51 -0700, Jerry Avins wrote:> On Apr 11, 8:36 pm, Fred Marshall <fmarshallxremove_th...@acm.org> > wrote: > > ... > >> I'm using forteinc.com news servers now at $2.95/mo it's OK with me. > > There are two servers I used to use, and both sied on me at around the > same time. I don't think it's likely that yet another will work better > than getting to the root of my difficulty. > >> I sent some notes re: how your messages look vs. mine and others. I >> don't know if that helps... > > I didn't see those. I switvhed to GG's old interface, which is (in my > view) horrible.. Consider this a test to see if it fixes the threading.It does fix the problem. I wish I knew whether Google Groups was an evil scheme to kill Usenet, or well-intentioned incompetence on Google's part. -- http://www.wescottdesign.com
Reply by ●April 13, 20112011-04-13
On 4/13/2011 8:18 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:55:51 -0700, Jerry Avins wrote: > >> On Apr 11, 8:36 pm, Fred Marshall<fmarshallxremove_th...@acm.org> >> wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> I'm using forteinc.com news servers now at $2.95/mo it's OK with me. >> >> There are two servers I used to use, and both sied on me at around the >> same time. I don't think it's likely that yet another will work better >> than getting to the root of my difficulty. >> >>> I sent some notes re: how your messages look vs. mine and others. I >>> don't know if that helps... >> >> I didn't see those. I switvhed to GG's old interface, which is (in my >> view) horrible.. Consider this a test to see if it fixes the threading. > > It does fix the problem. > > I wish I knew whether Google Groups was an evil scheme to kill Usenet, or > well-intentioned incompetence on Google's part. >Tim, It wasn't GG by itself. I think Jerry helped!! :-) Fred
