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in message <[email hidden]>, sam

(') said:

LEJOG or JOGLE veterans: Please visit bikereader's new page of tour
reports if you'd like to submit a link:
http://www.bikereader.com/e2e.html

Third time. Yes, your message is getting through. Each additional
posting of it pisses everyone else off a little more. Be patient. The
system works.

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Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, sam

(') said:

LEJOG or JOGLE veterans: Please visit bikereader's new page of tour
reports if you'd like to submit a link:
http://www.bikereader.com/e2e.html

Third time. Yes, your message is getting through. Each additional
posting of it pisses everyone else off a little more. Be patient. The
system works.

Funny that. It didn't [censored] me off in the slightest.

Quoted message said:

Third time. Yes, your message is getting through. Each additional
posting of it pisses everyone else off a little more. Be patient. The
system works.

Damn, I've only got two!

Mark Thompson said:

Damn, I've only got two!

I've only had it once.

What really pisses me off is that I often see replies to other people's
posts when I never saw the original post. I'm not all that sure the
system does work. It definitely doesn't work for me.

d.

In message <[email hidden]>, davek <[email hidden]>
writes

Quoted message said:

Mark Thompson said:

Damn, I've only got two!

I've only had it once.

What really pisses me off is that I often see replies to other people's
posts when I never saw the original post. I'm not all that sure the
system does work. It definitely doesn't work for me.

Your problem is that you use BT. Their news server is basically [censored] and
has been for years.

I suggest that you try news.individual.net, which is free and works.

<http://www.individual.net/index.html>

--
Chris French, Leeds

chris French said:

Your problem is that you use BT.

Aha! I wondered if that might be something to do with it.

Thanks very much for the suggestion - I'll give that other one a try.

d.

Is there any particular advantage to using a newsreader instead of
google groups which I use? Google seems unproblematic except for the
3-6 hour delay in posting.

cheers

Jacob

Quoted message said:

Is there any particular advantage to using a newsreader instead of
google groups which I use? Google seems unproblematic except for the
3-6 hour delay in posting.

Try a 3-6 second delay in posting, messages coming up almost instantly even
on dial-up, being able to show posts in almost any order (by date, unread
posts only, new posts only, alphabetical order...), kill files, most spam
blocked by your ISP, filters....

jacob said:

Google seems unproblematic except for the
3-6 hour delay in posting.

3-6 /hours/? With a dedicated client and a decent server, postings are
more-or-less instantaneous.

jacob said:

Is there any particular advantage to using a newsreader instead of
google groups which I use?

There are loads of advantages, as others have said, so I won't repeat them.

I use Mozilla Thunderbird (combined email client and news reader) which
you can download for free. And jolly good it is too.

And I heartily endorse Chris's recommendation of news.individual.net,
which I am now using.

d.

In message <[email hidden]>, Mark
Thompson <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Is there any particular advantage to using a newsreader instead of
google groups which I use? Google seems unproblematic except for the
3-6 hour delay in posting.

Try a 3-6 second delay in posting, messages coming up almost instantly even
on dial-up, being able to show posts in almost any order (by date, unread
posts only, new posts only, alphabetical order...), kill files, most spam
blocked by your ISP, filters....

Also using a newsreader to read is much quicker than online.
--
Chris French, Leeds

chris French said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Mark
Thompson <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Is there any particular advantage to using a newsreader instead of
google groups which I use? Google seems unproblematic except for the
3-6 hour delay in posting.

Try a 3-6 second delay in posting, messages coming up almost instantly even
on dial-up, being able to show posts in almost any order (by date, unread
posts only, new posts only, alphabetical order...), kill files, most spam
blocked by your ISP, filters....

Also using a newsreader to read is much quicker than online.

I tried to read news with google once and found the interface utterly
dire...

And if you do decide to get a newsreader, get one actually designed for
the job, not OE. People do use OE as a newsreader, but it's not the best
tool for the job by a long way.

--
Carol
"I was just being a little teapot. It's a bad habit of mine"
- Wyvern, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).