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This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto the other.
Hi,
It's me again. This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Thanks, Mort Linder |
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This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto the other.
On 30 Jul 2016, Real Troll wrote in
alt.windows7.general: On 31/07/2016 03:18, Mort wrote: This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Thanks, Mort Linder I expect you know already, but the person that responded to your post is trolling you. Do not believe or trust him or his posts. He is lying. Hello Mort, Welcome to our newsgroups. As to your question, we are charging 10 euros per year to put it on another machine. Please register he https://news.individual.net/overview.php Thank you for contacting us. |
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On 30 Jul 2016, Mort wrote in
alt.windows7.general: This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Assuming you are using the same news service there as here, Optimum Online, you can be sure that they carry alt.windows7.general . You probably need to refresh your list of groups. This group is fairly new compared to most other Usenet groups. |
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On 31/07/2016 03:18, Mort wrote:
Hi, It's me again. This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Thanks, Mort Linder Hello Mort, Welcome to our newsgroups. As to your question, we are charging 10 euros per year to put it on another machine. Please register he https://news.individual.net/overview.php Thank you for contacting us. |
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This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto theother.
Mort wrote:
Hi, It's me again. This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Thanks, Mort Linder alt.* groups are not as uniformly treated as the rest of the Big-8 hierarchies. alt groups today are added manually, one news server at a time. That's because newgroup and rmgroup commands no longer work for alt.* on news servers. So they cannot have one single Internet command, to create the group on all servers at the same time. Individuals contacted the server administrators, and asked for this group to be added. Then, as Nil says, it's up to you to use the "refresh newsgroup list" function of a client program, to get the new groups shown on your screen. Since administrators both add groups and remove groups, as part of maintenance, you can actually have fewer groups in the list after an update. But don't panic, as the reason for removing old groups, is a lack of traffic in them. Seamonkey, Thunderbird, and Netscape Navigator, share code used for newsgroups. Seamonkey and Thunderbird use a profile folder, and that keeps track of what you've been reading. At least on Thunderbird, you can transfer the profile folder from one machine to another. You edit a profile.ini file, or use the Profile Manager, to "point" to the new folder. And if you're sufficiently geeky, you can even store the Profile on a NAS, and access it from any computer - this works, as long as only one client computer at a time, is using the profile. Now, I don't set mine up that way, and a profile folder becomes "stale" if I run it for a few days on another computer and forget about it. Requiring that I copy the Master folder to whatever machine I happen to be working on. So you can actually transfer state information from one computer to another, making the experience seamless. But it does require figuring out a good mechanism for dragging around the profile folder. Mine has so much junk in it, it's 500MB in size :-) There are some email users, who have over 4GB in folders like that :-) A decent USB stick is big enough to hold it. I suppose this would be a good usage for the Cloud, except you really don't want the profile to be used by two computers at the same time. Normally, when you write software, you use a ..lock file to signal to a second program, that the Profile is "busy". Well-written software should be able to detect any dangerous "multi-usage issues". Paul |
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In message , Mort
writes: Hi, It's me again. This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into Well, the newsgroup as such isn't on the PC's HD; all that is there is the list of newsgroups, and those posts you've already downloaded, in whatever newsreader you use. my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Ah, I think SeaMonkey might be the newsreader in question then. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Assuming you are using the same news _provider_ (such as eternal-september, or perhaps Optimum Online - I'm not sure from your headers which is your news provider), then, as others have said, you just need to tell your newsreader software to refresh the list of newsgroups it knows your provider provides. I don't know SeaMonkey, but I think it's related to Thunderbird - where the button (or whatever) to refresh your newsgroup list is I think under account settings. (Make sure you're looking at the news account not the mail account.) I _thought_ there was also an option (in the same area) to _keep_ the local list of newsgroups up to date automatically, but I'm not sure about that. (In some news software, people used to tend to turn that off, as it was always popping up messages like "newsgroup x.y.z has just been added - do you want to subscribe to it?"; it's probably OK to turn it back on again now even if it does generate such messages, since new newsgroups don't happen much these days.) Or, you could copy your profile over from one machine to the other, as Paul describes; just finding and clicking the "refresh list of newsgroups" button is easier, though each method has its advantages. Thanks, Mort Linder You're welcome -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf It is complete loose-stool-water, it is arse-gravy of the worst kind - Stephen Fry on "The Da Vinci Code" |
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Never had any trouble with Agent newsreader by Forte.
Agent is very time honored, popular and well known. On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:18:33 -0400, Mort wrote: Hi, It's me again. This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Thanks, Mort Linder |
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On Sat, 06 Aug 2016 07:14:04 -0400, SteveGG
wrote: Never had any trouble with Agent newsreader by Forte. Agent is very time honored, popular and well known. Yes, I also use Agent, and like it a lot. But he asked about "help ... finding and subscribing to this group," and that is mostly an issue with the newsserver he uses, not with the newsreader. On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:18:33 -0400, Mort wrote: Hi, It's me again. This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Thanks, Mort Linder |
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In message , Ken Blake
writes: On Sat, 06 Aug 2016 07:14:04 -0400, SteveGG wrote: Never had any trouble with Agent newsreader by Forte. Agent is very time honored, popular and well known. Yes, I also use Agent, and like it a lot. But he asked about "help ... finding and subscribing to this group," and that is mostly an issue with the newsserver he uses, not with the newsreader. True, but if we can establish what newsreader he uses on the machine he currently doesn't have the 'group on, we can more easily direct him at how to (e. g.) tell it to refresh the list of 'groups. (At least, those of you who use Agent can!) On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:18:33 -0400, Mort wrote: Hi, It's me again. This newsgroup has been very helpful for me, and currently resides on the H.D. of my small travel PC. I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Both computers run SeaMonkey browser, and both have identical Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Intel i5 chips. Any help regarding my finding and subscribing to this group will be appreciated. Thanks, Mort Linder -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A true-born Englishman does not know any language. He does not speak English too well either but, at least, he is not proud of this. He is, however, immensely proud of not knowing any foreign languages. (George Mikes, "How to be Inimitable" [1960].) |
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 16:44:36 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Sat, 06 Aug 2016 07:14:04 -0400, SteveGG wrote: Never had any trouble with Agent newsreader by Forte. Agent is very time honored, popular and well known. Yes, I also use Agent, and like it a lot. But he asked about "help ... finding and subscribing to this group," and that is mostly an issue with the newsserver he uses, not with the newsreader. True, but if we can establish what newsreader he uses on the machine he currently doesn't have the 'group on, we can more easily direct him at how to (e. g.) tell it to refresh the list of 'groups. (At least, those of you who use Agent can!) OK, but I didn't read SteveGG's message to which I replied being directed toward that at all. |
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Mort wrote:
I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Presumably you are using the optonline on both, and SeaMonkey to access newsgroups. Access the Subscribe titled window again where you searched for alt. groups. SM has a Refresh button on the R under Sub/Unsub; that will give an updated group list. There are also tabs for Current group list and New groups. Maybe your home PC has an older group list. -- Mike Easter |
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On 06/08/2016 21:04, Mike Easter wrote:
Mort wrote: I attempted to find it and put it into my larger home-based PC and did not succeed. I searched through all the available alt. groups, including other Windows, but this one is absent. Presumably you are using the optonline on both, and SeaMonkey to access newsgroups. Access the Subscribe titled window again where you searched for alt. groups. SM has a Refresh button on the R under Sub/Unsub; that will give an updated group list. There are also tabs for Current group list and New groups. Maybe your home PC has an older group list. It took you nearly 7 days to reply to Mort. Where have you been all this time? Mort might be dead by now!! Old people don't live forever, you know!! -- If you want to filter all of my posts then please read this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/organize-your-messages-using-filters In step 7 select "Delete" With over 350 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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