Re: Last Apple2 Newsgroup?

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 28 Jan 1998 23:23:46 GMT, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

|>   As I said earlier, everyone's usenet connection is maintained by a
|>LOCAL administrator. [Technical details-- it's essentially a huge
|>distributed database, where usenet servers pass on copies to other
|>servers and propagate articles around.] 

yes, i am aware of that; that's why i wasn't complaining (per se), but
only pointing out that the other guy wasn't alone...

|>   It's not the responsibility of posters to make sure articles get
|>out, it's the responsibility of people to make sure they're receiving
|>everything. Yes, that means that some folks'll have to go do some work
|>(like firing off emails to admins is 'work'), but that sure beats
|>sitting around and simply complaining.

i hear ya, but please suggest how i can justify telling people that
associate the name "Apple" with ONLY Macs that i'm not getting all the
messages in comp.sys.apple2?  (not to mention that they'll tell me i
have other things to do besides read up on a "dead" system...)
sometimes you just have to live with it.  <shrug>

|>   If there are problems like missing posts, then you'll have to tell
|>your local ISP admins about it, and work with them to fix things.  Most
|>admins are busy enough that they won't go looking for problems until
|>they're notified of them. Or, if your ISP isn't responsive in fixing
|>problems, maybe it's time to find another that sucks less.

in this case, my ISP is the company i work for...  <g>  if i were
referring to my ISP at HOME (VERY different group, thank you!), then
yeah, i'd be complaining and working with them to fix it.  i've done
it before when the comp.os.linux.* split into a million sub-groups....
:)

ttyl...

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