From: "John Varela"    
      
   On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:42:09 UTC, Peter Flass    
    wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   I was. Haven't used FTP in yonks, either. I've already downloaded    
   the file from the web site and had returned here to post a follow-up   
   saying so, only to find you/ve beaten me to it.   
      
   Thanks for quick reply. Compare time hacks on my original post and    
   on this one.   
      
       
      
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