Re: Repost from outside of Google: Google Groups woes again.

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Feb 6, 12:28 pm, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 11:59 am, Egan Ford <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 2012-02-06 10:31:50 -0700, Linards Ticmanis said:
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> > > On 02/06/2012 05:51 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
> > >> Usually when Google Usenet Groups has a problem it's that posts from
> > >> outside of Google's Usenet service take a long time to appear.  Now I
> > >> am seeing the opposite.  The news server that I use from my ISP is
> > >> getting posts from everywhere but Google.
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> > >> Anyone else seeing this?
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> > > Yes indeed. It's all missing from news.arcor.de. So I guess Google is
> > > the culprit, as usual.
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> > > Dear Google Groups users: that means currently us who don't usually go
> > > there (except for search purposes) can't read anything you're posting.
> > > Please consider posting from somewhere else.
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> > > Although I guess I'm behind the times in still thinking of Google as
> > > nothing more than a slightly glorified search engine...
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> > I know that this has been discussed before, perhaps its time to discuss again.
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> > What are the alternatives?  What are others using?  If using an NNTP
> > server, what client on what OS?  If web-based, URL.  Thanks.
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> > My list:
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> >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/topics
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> > NNTP Server:
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> > news.xmission.com
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> > NNTP Client/Browser:
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> > nn (OS/X and UNIX), used to love in the '80s/'90s, now prefer GUI
> > clients (better fonts for readability)
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> > Xnttp (OS/X), Ok, not actively developed.  Minor annoyances.
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> > Unison (OS/X), nice, but for ~$30 US you'd think they would have a
> > spell checker.  Actively developed.
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> > NewsTap (iOS iPad and iPhone), Not bad, only iOS option.  Actively developed.
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> Another alternative I've used at times, when Google Groups seems to be
> having trouble getting messages, is Mac GUI City: http//:macgui.com
> run by D Finnigan.
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> Dean

replying to myself, it would help if I got the URL right:
http//:www.macgui.com

Dean