Usenet Index Post

I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

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says...

I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

I've been using newsgroups since 1985, and I've no idea what these might
be.

--

Phil, London

Philip Herlihy wrote:
In article ,
says...
I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

I've been using newsgroups since 1985, and I've no idea what these might
be.

That's because you're not using Google Groups, but a proper newsreader
looking at a news server.

The Google interface is strange, constantly changing and, basically,
broken, although Google groups does have very good retention once you
find out how to work round the way they've changed the interface to it
*this* week.

To the OP, I'm sorry I can't help as I don't intend loading Google
Groups to find out what the posts that you refer to are.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

Dave C wrote:
I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

Using your Forte Agent newsreader, you could
look at the "header" section of this mysterious
posting, and copy it into the next message
you post.

In particular, the Message ID or "MID" field, is
the one we can use here, to play along and read
the same message you see.

For example, the original message you sent,
has this as a MID value.



Now, when I use the http://al.howardknight.net/
site and you give me a MID, I can look up the
message easily. This is an archived copy
of your original posting.

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...8%404ax.com%3E

(The howardknight site truncates long postings,
so cannot be used for movie retrieval or downloading.)

The MID is key to easily identifying messages
for discussion.

Google Groups allows searching by MID, but
the function has been broken for several years.
It takes a long time (if ever), before new
postings are indexed and show up in a search.
That's why the howardknight site, is the
site I use for looking up a message using
a MID value.

*******

Post the MID of a sample of this kind
of message, so we can see it too.

Paul

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:12:10 -0400, Dave C wrote:

I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

Your posting is sort of off-topic here. Questions about newsreaders can
be asked in news:news.software.readers and if you have specific
questions about Forté Agent, you can ask them in
news:alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent

That being said: what boards are you talking about, because I have no
clue what you mean by "Index Posts". Are you talking about NZB files?

--
s|b

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:12:10 -0400, Dave C wrote:

I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

Most likely it is an indexing system that board uses.
You should probably ask each board what the index is for.

Newsgroups from a server read in a usenet client, are not, to my knowledge,
indexed.

Now this could also be referring to the message "count" system a service
might use to keep track of posts on their servers.

40tude dialog uses the term "marker" to indicate where the group messages
start and end.

You'll learn because it takes decades of dedication to make it to the top
of the food chain on usenet. Here's a tidbit on how to make it to the
upper echelon.

Subject:
HOMELESS LISA IS "Between ISPs"
Date:
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:53:54 -0700
From:
"THE COLONEL"
Organization:
A noiseless patient Spider
Newsgroups:
alt.messianic, alt.support.chronic-pain, alt.usenet.kooks
References:
1




"Homeless Lisa" was dumpster-dreamin' when she wrote

in message ...
Our internet connection went down this afternoon. I called the
new ISP that we just signed up with and got a message that due to
the large number of subscribers enrolling from the previous
company it could be several days before the new accounts are
active. We have a temporary solution, though we can't use much
bandwidth, but no outgoing email service because we have no SMTP
host. At least I have Usenet and can download mail.


Homeless Lisa suffers from Rx meds she found in the trashcans. She has no

ISP. Her "internet" consists of two tin cans and a string.
LOL


Dave C wrote:

I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

--
The Grandmaster of the CyberFROG

Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city

Nay, Art thou decideth playeth ye simpleton games. *Some* of us know
proper manners

Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs but got fired the first
day on the job for potty mouth,

Bur-ring, i'll get this one: WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM JERK!!? We're here to
help you dickweed, ok, ok give the power cord the jiggily piggily wiggily
all the while pushing the power button repeatedly now take everything out
of your computer except the power supply and *one* stick of ram.
Subscriber asks will that ****in' work? I guaranDAMtee it. Ok get the next
sucker on the phone.

Deirdre Straughan (Roxio) is a LIAR (Deirdre McFibber)

There's the employer and the employee and the FROGGER and the FROGEE,
which one are you?

Hamster isn't a newsreader it's a mistake!

El-Gonzo Jackson FROGS both me and Chuckcar (I just got EL-FROG-OED!!)

All hail Chuckcar the CZAR!! Or in F-R-O-Gland Chuckcar laFROG laCZAR,
ChuckZar!!

I hate them both, With useless bogus bull**** you need at least *three*
fulltime jobs to afford either one of them

I'm a fulltime text *only* man on usenet now. The rest of the world
downloads the binary files not me i can't afford thousands of dollars a
month

VBB = Volume based billing. How many bytes can we shove down your throat
and out your arse sir?

The only "fix" for the CellPig modem is a sledgehammer.

UBB = User based bullFROGGING

Colonel Debeers refuses to wrestle a black man
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-o_dPhbGI)

Master Juba was a black man imitating a white man imitating a black man

Always do incremental backups of your data or you'll end up like the
A-Holes at DSL Reports. Justin says i made a boo-boo. Yeah boo-who.

Updates are for idiots. As long as the thing works there's no reason to
turn
schizophrenic and develop a lifelong complex over such a silly issue.

You don't have to be "stinkbottomed" to post on this newsgroup

Anyone who disagrees with me gets FROG tape over their yapper

Adrian "jackpot" Lewis is a mama's boy!

Jimmy Fricke is good for the game of poker

Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions
beyond the realm of understandability

Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday

This sig file was compiled via my journeys through usenet

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:12:10 -0400, Dave C wrote:

I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

Ideally, you should post your question in the group(s) where you're seeing
those posts, such as alt.binaries.multimedia or alt.binaries.teevee.

I believe the answer you'll receive is to ignore them.

--

Char Jackson

I go back to the days of FidoNet and was a lurker back in the days when Ken
Pangborn and Kadaitcha Man ruled usenet. I've learned a whole lot from the
Kman.

Philip Herlihy wrote:

In article ,
says...

I am sorta new to NewsGroups. I am now seeing Usenet Index Posts, on
many boards that I follow.

Can someone explain to me, what those posts are, and how they might be
used??

I've been using newsgroups since 1985, and I've no idea what these might
be.

--

Phil, London

--
The Grandmaster of the CyberFROG

Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city

Nay, Art thou decideth playeth ye simpleton games. *Some* of us know proper
manners

Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs but got fired the first day
on the job for potty mouth,

Bur-ring, i'll get this one: WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM JERK!!? We're here to help
you dickweed, ok, ok give the power cord the jiggily piggily wiggily all the
while pushing the power button repeatedly now take everything out of your
computer except the power supply and *one* stick of ram. Subscriber asks
will that ****in' work? I guaranDAMtee it. Ok get the next sucker on the
phone.

Deirdre Straughan (Roxio) is a LIAR (Deirdre McFibber)

There's the employer and the employee and the FROGGER and the FROGEE, which
one are you?

Hamster isn't a newsreader it's a mistake!

El-Gonzo Jackson FROGS both me and Chuckcar (I just got EL-FROG-OED!!)

All hail Chuckcar the CZAR!! Or in F-R-O-Gland Chuckcar laFROG laCZAR,
ChuckZar!!

I hate them both, With useless bogus bull**** you need at least *three*
fulltime jobs to afford either one of them

I'm a fulltime text *only* man on usenet now. The rest of the world
downloads the binary files not me i can't afford thousands of dollars a
month

VBB = Volume based billing. How many bytes can we shove down your throat and
out your arse sir?

The only "fix" for the CellPig modem is a sledgehammer.

UBB = User based bullFROGGING

Colonel Debeers refuses to wrestle a black man
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-o_dPhbGI)

Master Juba was a black man imitating a white man imitating a black man

Always do incremental backups of your data or you'll end up like the A-Holes
at DSL Reports. Justin says i made a boo-boo. Yeah boo-who.

Updates are for idiots. As long as the thing works there's no reason to turn

schizophrenic and develop a lifelong complex over such a silly issue.

You don't have to be "stinkbottomed" to post on this newsgroup

Anyone who disagrees with me gets FROG tape over their yapper

Adrian "jackpot" Lewis is a mama's boy!

Jimmy Fricke is good for the game of poker

Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions beyond
the realm of understandability

Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday

This sig file was compiled via my journeys through usenet

On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:00:51 -0400, Tony wrote:

I've been using newsgroups since 1985, and I've no idea what these might
be.

I go back to the days of FidoNet and was a lurker back in the days when Ken
Pangborn and Kadaitcha Man ruled usenet. I've learned a whole lot from the
Kman.

And in all that time you still haven't learned how to quote or limit
your signature (which is not a sig since it is missing a space) to 4
lines...

--
s|b

On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:15:51 +0100, s|b wrote:

On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:00:51 -0400, Tony wrote:

I've been using newsgroups since 1985, and I've no idea what these might
be.

I go back to the days of FidoNet and was a lurker back in the days when Ken
Pangborn and Kadaitcha Man ruled usenet. I've learned a whole lot from the
Kman.

And in all that time you still haven't learned how to quote or limit
your signature (which is not a sig since it is missing a space) to 4
lines...

This is what is called a troll post.
This idiot thinks he's cute by setting a follow up to alt.clueless.
The Kman was a fraud.
He was just another alas of "Just Taylor - taylor jiminez et al".
Or was there two of them? Do I care now? Not one damn bit.
Because I had the last laugh and got his sorry ass kicked to kingdome come.

As for pangborn, well, he was just a total idiot.