From: "John Varela"    
      
   On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:49:39 UTC, Peter Moylan    
    wrote:   
      
   Hi Peter. Fancy meeting you here.   
      
   > I recently returned to the OS/2 newsgroups after a long absence.   
      
   Me too.   
      
   > What   
   > I'm now seeing are 32 newsgroups, most of which have no traffic, but   
   > it's hard to see the pattern of which ones are in use. Those articles   
   > that do turn up are frequently cross-posted, presumably because the   
   > poster is not sure where the helpful people might be hanging out.   
   >    
   > Wouldn't it be better to post occasional messages saying "This group is   
   > dead", and re-directing people to comp.os.os2.misc? That, plus   
   > comp.os.os2.announce, should be all that we need.   
      
   FWIW: Yesterday I posted a question to comp.os.os2.apps and today I    
   have two helpful responses.   
      
   The reason I posted to cooa is that my copy of ProNews/2 (which I am   
   running in a virtual machine on a Mac) won't filter news groups any    
   more and I'm looking for help. Any suggestions here?   
       
   > I haven't looked at the news.ecomstation.com news server, so I don't   
   > know how active that is these days.   
      
   While I'm here I might as well ask: I tried to download the latest    
   ProNews/2 from Hobbes and couldn't because it wants a UserID and    
   password. I don't recall ever having had those in the past and I    
   can't find anyplace on Hobbes to register. Can anybody enlighten me?   
   (I'm also emailing the archiver at Hobbes and asking him what's up.)   
      
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