framebuilders newsgroup?

[Nate Knutson]

Robert Dyke wrote:
> Hey ... I've lost the link to the framebuilders newsgroup. Can somebody
> post that for me?
>
> Thanks!

AFAIK you could only be talking about the framebuilders list -
www.bikelist.org .

 

[Robert Dyke]

Hey ... I've lost the link to the framebuilders newsgroup. Can somebody
post that for me?

Thanks!

 

[Robert Dyke]

No ... there was also a newsgroup, like this one that you could access
through your email program. Basically, it's always been called the
framebuilders newsgroup.


"Nate Knutson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Robert Dyke wrote:
> > Hey ... I've lost the link to the framebuilders newsgroup. Can somebody
> > post that for me?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> AFAIK you could only be talking about the framebuilders list -
> www.bikelist.org .
>

 

[Tim McNamara]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Robert Dyke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> No ... there was also a newsgroup, like this one that you could
> access through your email program. Basically, it's always been
> called the framebuilders newsgroup.

That would be a mailing list. Usenet is a different animal. Some mail
clients can also do Usenet.

AFAIK there is not nor ever has been a Usenet newsgroup for
framebuilders. There is at least one Web board, the Frame Builder's
Forum or something like that, and there is the frame builder's mailing
list through www.bikelist.org.

 

[Robert Dyke]

Sorry for the confusion I've created.

I'm talking about a newsgroup, not an email list. I'm using Outlook
Express, which is able to read and respond to newsgroups, like
rec.bicycles.tech

There is another newsgroup, just like this one, that focuses on
framebuilding.

Does anybody know the address of the framebuilder's newsgroup?

Thanks!

-Robert

"Tim McNamara" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Robert Dyke" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > No ... there was also a newsgroup, like this one that you could
> > access through your email program. Basically, it's always been
> > called the framebuilders newsgroup.
>
> That would be a mailing list. Usenet is a different animal. Some mail
> clients can also do Usenet.
>
> AFAIK there is not nor ever has been a Usenet newsgroup for
> framebuilders. There is at least one Web board, the Frame Builder's
> Forum or something like that, and there is the frame builder's mailing
> list through www.bikelist.org.

 

[Paul Hobson]

Robert Dyke wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion I've created.
>
> I'm talking about a newsgroup, not an email list. I'm using Outlook
> Express, which is able to read and respond to newsgroups, like
> rec.bicycles.tech
>
> There is another newsgroup, just like this one, that focuses on
> framebuilding.
>
> Does anybody know the address of the framebuilder's newsgroup?
>

go to www.groups.google.com and search for it. Once you figure out its
exact name, then go to OE and subscribe to it.

OE should also allow you to search for groups within some sort of
"manage subscriptions" menu.
\\paul

 

[Tim McNamara]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Robert Dyke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Tim McNamara" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > "Robert Dyke" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > No ... there was also a newsgroup, like this one that you could
> > > access through your email program. Basically, it's always been
> > > called the framebuilders newsgroup.
> >
> > That would be a mailing list. Usenet is a different animal. Some mail
> > clients can also do Usenet.
> >
> > AFAIK there is not nor ever has been a Usenet newsgroup for
> > framebuilders. There is at least one Web board, the Frame Builder's
> > Forum or something like that, and there is the frame builder's mailing
> > list through www.bikelist.org.
>
> Sorry for the confusion I've created.
>
> I'm talking about a newsgroup, not an email list. I'm using Outlook
> Express, which is able to read and respond to newsgroups, like
> rec.bicycles.tech

I checked through the 33,178 Usenet newsgroups available through my
server and there are no newsgroups about framebuilding. I search via
Google. Ain't nothing out there other than:

http://www.phred.org/mailman/listinfo/framebuilders

http://frameforum.net/

> There is another newsgroup, just like this one, that focuses on
> framebuilding.

Check the full group list of the news server offered by your ISP. There
may be something offered locally that is not distributed worldwide.

> Does anybody know the address of the framebuilder's newsgroup?

As I said previously, it appears that it doesn't exist. I've been
participating in Usenet forums for >10 years and have never seen it
mentioned on any of the rec.bicycles.* newsgroups.

 

[G.T.]

Robert Dyke wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion I've created.
>
> I'm talking about a newsgroup, not an email list.

Not that I've ever seen. And the news providers I've used in the past
have carried a hell of a lot of non-standard newsgroups.

Maybe the one you were on was on a private server, though.

Greg

--
"All my time I spent in heaven
Revelries of dance and wine
Waking to the sound of laughter
Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons

 

[Larry Coon]

Paul Hobson wrote:

> go to www.groups.google.com and search for it. Once you figure out its
> exact name, then go to OE and subscribe to it.

....assuming it exists, and if it does, assuming his ISP (or
news provider) carries it. I just took a look on Google
Groups, and didn't see any mention of one. There could be
a newsgroup on somebody's self-contained server somewhere,
but Google Groups usually picks those up.


Larry Coon
University of California

 

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[Robert Dyke]

Sorry again for asking a question that couldn't be answered. I called my
ISP, and they told me it was a group that they had sponsored. It was run by
a guy who worked there, and when he left, they took the group down.

I'll use the framebuilders' list instead. Thanks for trying to help.

-Robert

"Robert Dyke" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> Hey ... I've lost the link to the framebuilders newsgroup. Can somebody
> post that for me?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

 

[Phil, Squid-in-Training]

[email protected] wrote:
> www.groups.google.com
> fun fun fun till ...
> try 'penis enlargement'
> or...
> global village idiot

I can assure you that those weren't on private servers.
--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

 

[John Thompson]

On 2006-03-30, Robert Dyke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry for the confusion I've created.
>
> I'm talking about a newsgroup, not an email list. I'm using Outlook
> Express, which is able to read and respond to newsgroups, like
> rec.bicycles.tech
>
> There is another newsgroup, just like this one, that focuses on
> framebuilding.

I've been using usenet since the late 1980s and building frames for a
few years longer than that even, and as far as I know there's never been
a usenet newsgroup devoted to bicycle framebuilding. Looking through the
50,000 or so groups my ISP provides shows nothing of the kind in any case.

There is, however, the Frame Forum web site at http://www.frameforum.net
and the Framebuilders mailing list at
http://www.phred.org/mailman/listinfo/framebuilders.

If you really want, you might be able to access the mailing list through
mail-to-usenet gateway service at game.org

--

John ([email protected])