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From: Peter Flass
On 9/13/2011 7:39 PM, John Varela wrote:
> 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.)
>
Sounds like you were trying to use FTP instead of HTTP. Did you try
using "anonymous" as user and your eMail address or "guest" as password?
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