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| (...) I've never used NNTP (hate Outlook Express and never bothered to explore other readers (plus its blocked by the firewall at work)). However only this evening on the train home from work I was think I should see what the fuss was, before I read (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) You're forgetting some BIG advantages of NNTP... NNTP doesn't require huge bloated software (be it IE or Firefox or whatever...), since it's text-based there's little overhead (just look at all the HTML code when looking at the source of ANY (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Allan Johansen" <f2k@chaotica.dk> wrote in message news:IJxH0E.110r@lugnet.com... (...) die (...) I disagree. I think NNTP is a underappreciated technology by most people. Reading content via a News Reader is as simple as reading e-mail. I really (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Um, well, since my newsreader is Pine, I suppose I could say that I follow all my e-mail through my newsreader. . .but I don't use NNTP for anything but LUGNET newsgroups (and never really read any non-LUGNET newsgroups but rtl and some (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| It seems that I'm no only one here who doesn't like NNTP. I'll try to explain. NNTP is, to me, an outdated technology that should simply be allowed to die out. It is cumbersome (especially with the extra checks that Lugnet demand before allowing (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Suz" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:IJw76p.246I@lugnet.com... (...) I subscribe to about 40 Lugnet groups on 3 different computers via NNTP. That's my idea of cool! ;) I've never figured out how to subscribe to rtl or I would (paid (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) usenet groups (among them rec.toys.lego :-) other, non-usenet servers, for example borland.public.delphi.* (...) Not switch. I do read a couple of web forums, but I really don't like the format (the content is my reason for reading). (...) (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Mainly, if you kill off Lugnet, try to find someone willing to support/host the NNTP side in some way, so us dinosaurs can continue with our non-web reading, and the webbies can have the interface they seem to rave about. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I'm not sure I follow you. LUGNET newsgroups are either on or off and Jake's personal project is not equipped. (?) -Suz (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Same here. Happens in Safari too. (...) thanks. (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| I only use NNTP for Lugnet. As other hobbies I have had have moved to BBs, I have trailed off of them. I *highly* prefer NNTP and email to anything else, as I can download when I want and read offline (not that I'm ever really offline). I just won't (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I think there must be a wrap_the_post() funcrion somewhere in there that does the wrapping when you post from your browser. (...) Mozilla does seem to handle the preview differently from IE. But even though it puts extra line breaks in the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I've been following several dutch newsgroups, mostly Linux/hardware related for years. Used to subscribe to other groups too but those died out when webboards came or were ruined by one or two loudmouths. (...) I've been using KDE's akregator (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I have to admit I've had my own share of difficulty with this. The worst part seems to be that it's random. Using Mozilla, I hit "preview" on a post, and occasionally, it wraps text very oddly. Then, without changing anything, I'll hit (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| okay, I'm annoyed now. Why is this coming up as one long line in the LUGNET web interface? (URL) always just felt too stupid to ask about it, but my misery has gone on too long, and I've tried altering many variables. So, why is it that whenever I (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| For those of you using newsreaders, I have a few questions. I'm curious: what other sorts of stuff do you follow via newsreader? Anything cool? Are there many things you've been forced to switch to viewing other ways? How do you follow rss feeds? Is (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: LUGNet shut off
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| (...) Heh. Thankfully, I haven't "Had it!" yet, so there's been no temptation for rash action. (^^) But, we will see how it goes. (...) LOL! This *is* insane, isn't it? Ghad, and my brother is David, and my father was Dave! So many wonderful Daves (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) Yeahh, I knooow :-( ...sigh. (...) LOL. I just now saw this in the web browser. Very cute and warms my heart. :-) -Suz (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) I, for one, endorse immediate, full-blown hysteria. All this reasonable analysis misses a golden opportunity for us to run around like headless chickens. (...) IMO you’d be within your rights, even if it would ruffle some feathers, to say (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) I am still struggling with the timing. I'm relieved that there has been no rush of panic! Here's what I'm thinking at the moment... For my own sanity, it seems reasonable that a rough course of action be decided upon by Aug 1. That is to say, (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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