Re: WaZaBoo! BBS 216-382-7040

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"copper wire" <NoEmail@NoEmail.NoNet> wrote in message
news:NoEmail-2012032303200001@24.77.190.53...

: Perhaps I'm misinterpreting what you are saying, but changing
the
: newsreading software won't change your situation. One would
have to change
: the actual NNTP server you are accessing USENET with in order
to gain
: access to newsgroups you are currently not "seeing".

Yes, I realized that after I posted. I'll never see it
as long as Giganews doesn't subscribe to it. And they
won't if there isn't any real activity.

: As far as Google goes, I just went to www.google.com, clicked
on "Groups"
: and searched for comp.binaries.apple2.  Results 1-10 of about
12,200 show
: one post to that particular newsgroup from 1989, of which goes
on to
: explain why binaries newsgroups in general do not receive good
propagation
: throughout USENET. I'm sure there are more posts in amongst
those 12,200
: results which would have direct postings to
comp.binaries.apple2, but I'm
: too lazy to look. Not sure why you would not see the same
results as what
: I get since your world wide web is the same one that I and
anyone else on
: the 'net uses.

Yah, I did get the 12,200+ listings, and like you said,
nothing worthwhile seeing.

: But really, from the looks of things at my end using my NNTP
server,
: comp.binaries.apple2 is basically a spamfest of postings, I
don't see a
: single Apple II binary posting there. Looks like that newsgroup
is pretty
: much a lame duck franchise so to speak.

Maybe it should be removed in that case. How does one go
about having a NG removed. After all, it is just wasting
space at this point. Of course it might be a good idea to
leave it to the spammers and trolls. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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