Re: news.eternal-september
Walter wrote: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. Apologies for off topic query. Walter. OK. Thanks for the tips. I am set up now and have to decide which newsgroups I want to visit. First one will be comp.sys.cbm Any other Commodore 64 fans here? Walter. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
Walter wrote: Walter wrote: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. Apologies for off topic query. Walter. OK. Thanks for the tips. I am set up now and have to decide which newsgroups I want to visit. First one will be comp.sys.cbm Any other Commodore 64 fans here? Walter. I have the following Commodore 64 gear for sale. If you know anyone that wants it, please let me know. Commodore 64 computer Commodore 1541C disk drive Star SL-10C printer Vic 20 model 1600 modem Sharedata Utility Cartridge Fortronics Cardio Inc DC/1 tape drive No monitor - I used TV Commodore to TV converter manuals, many books, various programs and diskettes I have no idea what this equipment is worth, but I'll never use it again and so would like to get it to someone that can use it. My phone number is 651-426-4144 e-mail is wa0...@arrl.net Henry WA0GOZ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
On 10/25/2010 1:11 PM Henry wrote: Walter wrote: Walter wrote: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. Apologies for off topic query. Walter. OK. Thanks for the tips. I am set up now and have to decide which newsgroups I want to visit. First one will be comp.sys.cbm Any other Commodore 64 fans here? Walter. I have the following Commodore 64 gear for sale. If you know anyone that wants it, please let me know. Commodore 64 computer Commodore 1541C disk drive Star SL-10C printer Vic 20 model 1600 modem Sharedata Utility Cartridge Fortronics Cardio Inc DC/1 tape drive No monitor - I used TV Commodore to TV converter manuals, many books, various programs and diskettes I have no idea what this equipment is worth, but I'll never use it again and so would like to get it to someone that can use it. My phone number is 651-426-4144 e-mail is wa0...@arrl.net Henry WA0GOZ Henry - the last time I saw any of those were at a Hamfest about 10 years ago where I took mine to sell. All in all there were about 15 complete systems for sale by various hams. At the end of the Hamfest they were all in a dumpster. No one took theirs home. So, good luck in selling them. -- Ed, W3BNR http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1zhwu/ Powered by SeaMonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
Hey, guys, The Commodore is still alive. Have a look at: http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Commodore-/74945/i.html W. W3BNR wrote: On 10/25/2010 1:11 PM Henry wrote: Walter wrote: Walter wrote: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. Apologies for off topic query. Walter. OK. Thanks for the tips. I am set up now and have to decide which newsgroups I want to visit. First one will be comp.sys.cbm Any other Commodore 64 fans here? Walter. I have the following Commodore 64 gear for sale. If you know anyone that wants it, please let me know. Commodore 64 computer Commodore 1541C disk drive Star SL-10C printer Vic 20 model 1600 modem Sharedata Utility Cartridge Fortronics Cardio Inc DC/1 tape drive No monitor - I used TV Commodore to TV converter manuals, many books, various programs and diskettes I have no idea what this equipment is worth, but I'll never use it again and so would like to get it to someone that can use it. My phone number is 651-426-4144 e-mail is wa0...@arrl.net Henry WA0GOZ Henry - the last time I saw any of those were at a Hamfest about 10 years ago where I took mine to sell. All in all there were about 15 complete systems for sale by various hams. At the end of the Hamfest they were all in a dumpster. No one took theirs home. So, good luck in selling them. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
On 10/25/2010 3:55 PM Walter wrote: Hey, guys, The Commodore is still alive. Have a look at: http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Commodore-/74945/i.html W. W3BNR wrote: On 10/25/2010 1:11 PM Henry wrote: Walter wrote: Walter wrote: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. Apologies for off topic query. Walter. OK. Thanks for the tips. I am set up now and have to decide which newsgroups I want to visit. First one will be comp.sys.cbm Any other Commodore 64 fans here? Walter. I have the following Commodore 64 gear for sale. If you know anyone that wants it, please let me know. Commodore 64 computer Commodore 1541C disk drive Star SL-10C printer Vic 20 model 1600 modem Sharedata Utility Cartridge Fortronics Cardio Inc DC/1 tape drive No monitor - I used TV Commodore to TV converter manuals, many books, various programs and diskettes I have no idea what this equipment is worth, but I'll never use it again and so would like to get it to someone that can use it. My phone number is 651-426-4144 e-mail is wa0...@arrl.net Henry WA0GOZ Henry - the last time I saw any of those were at a Hamfest about 10 years ago where I took mine to sell. All in all there were about 15 complete systems for sale by various hams. At the end of the Hamfest they were all in a dumpster. No one took theirs home. So, good luck in selling them. Although my Comodore64 is long gone, my Timex Z80 is still here and working. -- Ed http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1zhwu/ Powered by SeaMonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
W3BNR wrote: Although my Comodore64 is long gone, my Timex Z80 is still here and working. That is frightening. Although, it probably can't start WWIII so, what the hell, enjoy! :-) -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
news.eternal-september
I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. Apologies for off topic query. Walter. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:47:59 -0500, /Walter/: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. Checkout the FAQ page: http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=faq You should be able to see and access at least all eternal-september.* groups which include eternal-september.support where you could post help questions: http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=faq#Login-No-Auth In case you've once read the newsgroup list unauthenticated you may need to refresh the list: http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=faq#RefreshGroupList -- Stanimir ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
Walter wrote: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. In SM have you clicked to the news.eternal.septemeber account you created in SM - then click on the right pane at Manage newsgroup subscriptions ..etc .. ? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: news.eternal-september
On 10/24/2010 2:24 PM PT, Ray_Net typed: Walter wrote: I know this is a mozilla support for seamonkey but... I want to access some other support groups through news.eternal-september.org and have joined the site. I cannot find how to subscribe to any of the groups. Would somebody give me a hint where to start. In SM have you clicked to the news.eternal.septemeber account you created in SM - then click on the right pane at Manage newsgroup subscriptions ..etc .. ? Also, need to enter the account data to log in too to see them. ;) -- Now I have you where I want you... where is my jar of Bull ants? --unknown /\___/\ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ /If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Phillip Jones wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Remember, Microsoft is shutting down their news servers in a few weeks. Can't get in when I go to sign in it just sits there. There is a problem. Imagine that, a free news server which is having a temporary problem. Slow response is not acceptable. Seriously, even the best servers occasionally have hardware or network issues, e-s is a hobby, there's no tiger team 7x24 to fix stuff. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
chicagofan wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. Can't get in when I go to sign in it just sits there. There is a problem. You shouldn't have to sign in, if your settings are right. You just click on the news server account you have set up in SM, and the news groups you have subscribed to, should download. You have to sign in, and click the always offer credentials option to force that. e-s behaves one way if you do sign in and another if you don't, but it does not present the NNTP Authentication required prompt to trigger sending login so you have to force it. The problem is usually that people either don't force it, or use the wrong server. And if you use secure login you have to connect to the server which has the matching certificate. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
J. Weaver Jr. wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: This was the second failure in less than a week. The first time it just quit working. The only cure was unsubscribe from the server in SeaMonkey the go to profile and wipe out anything associated with eternal-september You spent time unsubscribing, wiping, probably resetting up. I just waited. then It started working for a day, the this LDAP error showed up I spent the better part of the day removing and re-entering till blue in the face. nothing would help. Then you did it all again, while I just waited. Why did I wait? Because I had gone to the e-s web site and seen that they were having a server problem. You were given the link to the page of server status at least twice, and never bothered to acknowledge that you ever even looked. So your fiddling was all for naught. Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. It was a server that failed. Hardware fails. Give him a break. ...and get a backup going, if you're that addicted. I use Tera News as my backup (free for 50m/day after a one-time $3.95 setup fee). I've had to weather a couple of brief e-s outages over the years, but I'd consider them _very_ reliable. -JW Unfortunately Tera News doesn't have a list of newsgroups on their web page, and the public site isn't even usable to grab an ACTIVE file. Having an account wouldn't help much if you can't get on the server. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
In news:3aadnq6bmq5yf57rnz2dnuvz_usdn...@mozilla.org, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Unfortunately Tera News doesn't have a list of newsgroups on their web page, and the public site isn't even usable to grab an ACTIVE file. Having an account wouldn't help much if you can't get on the server. I'll send you the active file for free.teranews.com if you want it. I've set followup to poster, e-mail. -- »Q« /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign\ / against html e-mail X http://www.asciiribbon.org/ / \ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
J. Weaver Jr. wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: This was the second failure in less than a week. ... Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. It was a server that failed. Hardware fails. Give him a break. ...and get a backup going, if you're that addicted. I use Tera News as my backup (free for 50m/day after a one-time $3.95 setup fee). I've had to weather a couple of brief e-s outages over the years, but I'd consider them _very_ reliable. -JW That's a good idea, for the addicted. g Me, I'll usually find something else to do for the few hours the server may be down. The grass needs mowed or something... I would probably switch to (or add) individual.net for €10 per year, if e-s wasn't as reliable as it is. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
On 5/27/2010 2:14 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: J. Weaver Jr. wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: This was the second failure in less than a week. ... Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. It was a server that failed. Hardware fails. Give him a break. ...and get a backup going, if you're that addicted. I use Tera News as my backup (free for 50m/day after a one-time $3.95 setup fee). I've had to weather a couple of brief e-s outages over the years, but I'd consider them _very_ reliable. -JW That's a good idea, for the addicted.g Me, I'll usually find something else to do for the few hours the server may be down. The grass needs mowed or something... I would probably switch to (or add) individual.net for €10 per year, if e-s wasn't as reliable as it is. Well, it is easy to get addicted, same as you are to this NG! Over time, you make online friends or sort of ... Last time E-S was down for several days in a row, I decided to install a backup (news.aioe.org, which is free and seems to be reliable). Easy and free! -- John Doue ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: This was the second failure in less than a week. The first time it just quit working. The only cure was unsubscribe from the server in SeaMonkey the go to profile and wipe out anything associated with eternal-september You spent time unsubscribing, wiping, probably resetting up. I just waited. then It started working for a day, the this LDAP error showed up I spent the better part of the day removing and re-entering till blue in the face. nothing would help. Then you did it all again, while I just waited. Why did I wait? Because I had gone to the e-s web site and seen that they were having a server problem. You were given the link to the page of server status at least twice, and never bothered to acknowledge that you ever even looked. So your fiddling was all for naught. Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. It was a server that failed. Hardware fails. Give him a break. I did go to the site and no announcements were shown about the problem. I usually go to site first anytime I am having a problem. In most cases doing so is useless as no one wants to admit there is a problem until the problem is fixed if ever. But at times I was even having difficulty having the website to even come up. When I did go to site I couldn't sign in. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.If it's Fixed, Don't Break it http://www.phillipmjones.netmailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Phillip Jones wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: This was the second failure in less than a week. The first time it just quit working. The only cure was unsubscribe from the server in SeaMonkey the go to profile and wipe out anything associated with eternal-september You spent time unsubscribing, wiping, probably resetting up. I just waited. then It started working for a day, the this LDAP error showed up I spent the better part of the day removing and re-entering till blue in the face. nothing would help. Then you did it all again, while I just waited. Why did I wait? Because I had gone to the e-s web site and seen that they were having a server problem. You were given the link to the page of server status at least twice, and never bothered to acknowledge that you ever even looked. So your fiddling was all for naught. Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. It was a server that failed. Hardware fails. Give him a break. I did go to the site and no announcements were shown about the problem. I usually go to site first anytime I am having a problem. In most cases doing so is useless as no one wants to admit there is a problem until the problem is fixed if ever. All you have to do is look at those big colored buttons in the middle of the status page. If they are green, the news server is working. If they are red or orange, it is not. It's automatic. But at times I was even having difficulty having the website to even come up. When I did go to site I couldn't sign in. No 'sign in' is necessary. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
On 5/26/2010 3:10 AM, Phillip Jones wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Remember, Microsoft is shutting down their news servers in a few weeks. Can't get in when I go to sign in it just sits there. There is a problem. I gave up on it, and now mostly use news.aioe.org. It is free too, and seems to be reliable. Whatever MS does ... -- John Doue ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Remember, Microsoft is shutting down their news servers in a few weeks. Can't get in when I go to sign in it just sits there. There is a problem. Yes, there is, as shown at the page above. I thought that would explain your LDAP server error... I've been using e-s for several years and can't complain about it. But if you want to spend $8 or whatever every month, enjoy. On the e-s support group today (5/26), Ray Banana says: mx02.eternal-september.org offline for hardware repair Intermittent connection problems, degraded performance etc. are to be expected, as its 8 CPUs and 8GiB of memory will be sadly missed. Hopefully it will be back later today. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
On 5/25/2010 9:22 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: Guess I'll pay the 8 bucks a month for giganews. If eternal-september is going to break down every few days even if free is not very enjoyable. I want something once you set it up you don't feel like you need to take a hammer to your computer to make it work. As an alternative to news.eternal-september and giginews at the higher $$$ I really like. news.individual.net. I have been using it for about 12 years now with almost no issues. It used to be free but is now 10 Euros a year, a pretty good price in my mind. Yes I am in the US and yes I have had no issues paying in Euros with my credit card. The price just changes a tad each year depending on the exchange rate. http://news.individual.net/ There are no binaries on this, so if you need binaries than, yes perhaps giga news is your option. Hawker ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
hawker wrote: On 5/25/2010 9:22 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: Guess I'll pay the 8 bucks a month for giganews. If eternal-september is going to break down every few days even if free is not very enjoyable. I want something once you set it up you don't feel like you need to take a hammer to your computer to make it work. As an alternative to news.eternal-september and giginews at the higher $$$ I really like. news.individual.net. I have been using it for about 12 years now with almost no issues. It used to be free but is now 10 Euros a year, a pretty good price in my mind. Yes I am in the US and yes I have had no issues paying in Euros with my credit card. The price just changes a tad each year depending on the exchange rate. http://news.individual.net/ There are no binaries on this, so if you need binaries than, yes perhaps giga news is your option. Hawker If I was going to pay for a news service, I would go back to individual.net. I used it for several years before and after they had to institute a fee, when AOL and other ISPs canceled news services for their clients. Like you, I found it to be an excellent news service, and they filtered more spam than any server I've used. bj ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Phillip Jones wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Works great for me. No problems at all. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
D. K. Kraft wrote: With patience akin to a cat's, Phillip Jones, on 5/25/2010 4:00 PM typed: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. From the e-s support group: Original Message From: Ray Bananaray...@banana.shacknet.nu Newsgroups: eternal-september.support Subject: Re: authentication server problem?? Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:31:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient spider Lines: 23 Message-ID:851vczm84x@banana.shacknet.nu References:hthn8n$3l...@speranza.aioe.org Thus spake greybeardnob...@nowhere.invalid Hello Support. The authentication server has been repeating requesting a password. Normally this is not requested, being loaded into reader, but when refreshed, still fails to authenticate. To be precise, it's your client that repeatedly asks for your password. The error message from the server, however, stated that no LDAP (authentication server) could be reached. In fact, the master LDAP server failed last night and, while there are two standby servers available, these will only be tried when the primary server either rejects to connection or there is a connection timeout. In this case, the connection request to the master server would wait for several minutes, although the timeout in the LDAP client is set to 5 seconds. This caused newsreader connections to fail as well as the web site slowing down while waiting for a reply from the LDAP server. It also affected user registrations and password change/retrieval requests. Fixed this morning at 3 o'clock UTC End Original Message Servers fail. It happens. I've been using ES since it was Motzarella and this is the first major connection problem that I've personally experienced. Not certain of your own track record, but it seems a bit scorched earth to write off ES because of an isolated server failure--just my two whiskers worth. There are other free newsservers available with varying reliability. I've found ES to be the best of the lot, and Ray to be a capable admin. I keep AIOE as a backup source just in case. Helpful in situations like these, which are rare, IME, for ES. Purrs from a rainy Pacific Northwest -- This was the second failure in less than a week. The first time it just quit working. The only cure was unsubscribe from the server in SeaMonkey the go to profile and wipe out anything associated with eternal-september then It started working for a day, the this LDAP error showed up I spent the better part of the day removing and re-entering till blue in the face. nothing would help. Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.If it's Fixed, Don't Break it http://www.phillipmjones.netmailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Phillip Jones wrote: This was the second failure in less than a week. The first time it just quit working. The only cure was unsubscribe from the server in SeaMonkey the go to profile and wipe out anything associated with eternal-september You spent time unsubscribing, wiping, probably resetting up. I just waited. then It started working for a day, the this LDAP error showed up I spent the better part of the day removing and re-entering till blue in the face. nothing would help. Then you did it all again, while I just waited. Why did I wait? Because I had gone to the e-s web site and seen that they were having a server problem. You were given the link to the page of server status at least twice, and never bothered to acknowledge that you ever even looked. So your fiddling was all for naught. Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. It was a server that failed. Hardware fails. Give him a break. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: This was the second failure in less than a week. The first time it just quit working. The only cure was unsubscribe from the server in SeaMonkey the go to profile and wipe out anything associated with eternal-september You spent time unsubscribing, wiping, probably resetting up. I just waited. then It started working for a day, the this LDAP error showed up I spent the better part of the day removing and re-entering till blue in the face. nothing would help. Then you did it all again, while I just waited. Why did I wait? Because I had gone to the e-s web site and seen that they were having a server problem. You were given the link to the page of server status at least twice, and never bothered to acknowledge that you ever even looked. So your fiddling was all for naught. Two failures in a two day period doesn't sound reliable. It was a server that failed. Hardware fails. Give him a break. ...and get a backup going, if you're that addicted. I use Tera News as my backup (free for 50m/day after a one-time $3.95 setup fee). I've had to weather a couple of brief e-s outages over the years, but I'd consider them _very_ reliable. -JW ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Giving up on news.eternal-september
I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.If it's Fixed, Don't Break it http://www.phillipmjones.netmailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
In news:59sdnuicdlroy2hwnz2dnuvz_vwdn...@mozilla.org, Phillip Jones pjon...@kimbanet.com wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. I am going to do without USENET. My guess is that you've entered a server name in the wrong place for that account, but I can't help. Good thing you'd given up before posting, so you don't need help. :) I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Microsoft will be mothballing their server. Starting in June and continuing through the fall, they'll be shutting down their groups in phases. They're providing what they call an NNTP Bridge with limited functionality for people who want to keep using netnews clients with their webforums. Announcement about the shutdown of the newsgroups, with contact info: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.news.servertid=7e72fb9e-53a8-41fc-82c9-589c1dbca01acat=en_US_9b6d26c4-de58-4d72-93d9-4c56f036b989lang=encr=USsloc=p=1 or http://tinyurl.com/27hnjqa More help in microsoft.public.news.server or at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.news.server (until June 1, when it will close). Instructions for setting up the NNTP Bridge: http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ They say it supports Thunderbird, so I guess it should be ok with SeaMonkey as well. And presumably the Usenet versions of the groups will live on, just not peering with the old msnews server. -- »Q« /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign\ / against html e-mail X http://www.asciiribbon.org/ / \ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Phillip Jones wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Remember, Microsoft is shutting down their news servers in a few weeks. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Remember, Microsoft is shutting down their news servers in a few weeks. Can't get in when I go to sign in it just sits there. There is a problem. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.If it's Fixed, Don't Break it http://www.phillipmjones.netmailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Phillip Jones wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. Can't get in when I go to sign in it just sits there. There is a problem. You shouldn't have to sign in, if your settings are right. You just click on the news server account you have set up in SM, and the news groups you have subscribed to, should download. How did you set up your ES news server account? bj ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Giving up on news.eternal-september
Phillip Jones wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: I've been working for last half hour to get anything from eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server. When you think you have a connection problem, check here: http://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en This was mentioned to you before. I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine. Remember, Microsoft is shutting down their news servers in a few weeks. Can't get in when I go to sign in it just sits there. There is a problem. Yes, there is, as shown at the page above. I thought that would explain your LDAP server error... I've been using e-s for several years and can't complain about it. But if you want to spend $8 or whatever every month, enjoy. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
