Traffic and propagation of win-98 groups (was: Splitting an ethernet)

Menno Hershberger wrote:

I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad.

You should be reading and posting to
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup.

Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in
there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those
three the last post was in April of 2009.

Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating.

Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft
group.

Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...n/topics?gvc=2

I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to
nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except
that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts, and
other spam that google can't or won't filter.

98 Guy wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote:

I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad.
You should be reading and posting to
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup.
Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in
there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those
three the last post was in April of 2009.

Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating.

Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft
group.

Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...n/topics?gvc=2

I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to
nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except
that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts, and
other spam that google can't or won't filter.

Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago?

Paul in Houston TX wrote:

98 Guy wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote:

I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad.
You should be reading and posting to
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup.
Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in
there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those
three the last post was in April of 2009.

Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating.

Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft
group.

Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...discussion/top
ics?gvc=2

I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to
nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except
that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts,
and other spam that google can't or won't filter.

Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago?

Yes. But that doesn't mean they disappeared.

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In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes:
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Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago?

Yes, on their own newsserver. Lots of other servers carried on carrying
them, regardless, though.

I believe MS stopped news as we know it altogether, i. e. turned off
their server; they went over to forums.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so. (First series, fit the first.)

Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago?

It's a common misconception that Microsoft (or their servers) played
some sort of central role in the existance of the microsoft.* usenet
hierarchy.

This couldn't be further from the truth.

The truth is that Microsoft's servers were *peers* on usenet when it
comes to those groups. Ever since some point in the mid 1990's they
peered their servers with the rest of usenet, allowing messages posted
anywhere to be seen on any server.

What Microsoft did about 1.5 years ago was to shut down their usenet
server (or change their groups into a different forum - a *closed*
forum). That had no effect on the rest of the "world-wide" usenet in
terms of if they (or how they) continued to carry the microsoft groups
amongst themselves - which the vast majority did.

Paul in Houston TX wrote:
98 Guy wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote:

Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago?

Thanks everyone for the clarification.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message news
In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes:
[]
Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago?

Yes, on their own newsserver. Lots of other servers carried on carrying
them, regardless, though.

I believe MS stopped news as we know it altogether, i. e. turned off
their server; they went over to forums.

The newsserver is up and running,

Configuration:
Account: Microsoft Communities
Server: msnews.microsoft.com
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119

But not hosting any Newsgroups at this time...



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User-agent: *
Disallow: /

In message , 000-222-000
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
news
In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes:
[]
Didn't MS do away with the ms hosted groups a year or two ago?
Yes, on their own newsserver. Lots of other servers carried on
carrying them, regardless, though.
I believe MS stopped news as we know it altogether, i. e. turned off
their server; they went over to forums.

The newsserver is up and running,

Configuration:
Account: Microsoft Communities
Server: msnews.microsoft.com
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119

But not hosting any Newsgroups at this time...



OK (-:
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

To me as an anaesthetist, a doctor whose job it is to keep the engine running
while someone else tries to fix it - Dr Kevin Fong, Radio Times 25 Sept-1 Oct
2010

98 Guy wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote:

I really like this group, but it seems to be dying off. Too bad.

You should be reading and posting to
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
because that is the most active windows-98 newsgroup.

Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see in
there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to those
three the last post was in April of 2009.

Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating.

Giganews must have a problem with the propagation of with microsoft
group.

Google groups has what I think is a complete feed, as you can see he

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...n/topics?gvc=2

I suggest you stop paying for usenet access and point your client to
nntp.aioe.org as I do. I see the same posts as google does. Except
that aioe is filtering out the stupid Tony Lance "big bertha" posts, and
other spam that google can't or won't filter.

That's not what I see, still getting those posts, or none at all.
On top of that I am getting error messages half the time, when sending
replies of either too many lines or IP-configuration.
Just have to live with it, I guess.

Harry.

Menno Hershberger wrote:

Giganews carries that newsgroup. But the last three posts I see
in there were made by myself... dating back to 2010. Prior to
those three the last post was in April of 2009.

Even though Giganews carries the group, it must not be propogating.

This would account for not seeing any posts lately from the prolific
Lostgalibladder...

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