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Old July 31st 16, 03:18 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mort[_7_]
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Default 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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Old July 31st 16, 03:33 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Nil[_5_]
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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.

  #3  
Old July 31st 16, 03:40 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Nil[_5_]
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Default This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto the other.

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.
  #4  
Old July 31st 16, 04:00 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Real Troll
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Default This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto theother.

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.


  #5  
Old July 31st 16, 05:31 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default 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

  #6  
Old July 31st 16, 01:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto the other.

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
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Old August 6th 16, 12:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
SteveGG
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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

  #8  
Old August 6th 16, 03:28 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_5_]
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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

  #9  
Old August 6th 16, 04:44 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto the other.

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


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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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Old August 6th 16, 08:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_5_]
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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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Old August 6th 16, 09:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mike Easter
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Default This newsgroup is on one of my PCs,a nd cannot be put onto theother.

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.

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Old August 6th 16, 09:11 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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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!!

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