ZA-NewsServers dud:comp.os.linux.networking ?

ne...@absamail.co.za

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Aug 14, 2006, 11:20:45 PM8/14/06

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Like health-services, law & justice-departmemt, banking
now also the ZA inet-service is increasingly going to shit !

Reapeatedly my ISP [ABSA] is o.o. over the weekend.
And for several months the NewsGroup:
comp.os.linux.networking
shows only my posts.

This was previously a high volume group, and must
have become locally-isolated.

Based on previous experience that 'technical support'
only knows how to read from their question-sheet, any
attempt to report the fault is only likely to promote the
pending nervous break down.

Apparently much/all of the NewsGroups are locally
centralised ? If so then not only *.saix.* has this problem.

Do any other ZA users have local access to this group ?

Thanks foe info,

== Chris Glur.

Niels Dettenbach

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Aug 18, 2006, 5:29:23 PM8/18/06

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ne...@absamail.co.za wrote:

> Like health-services, law & justice-departmemt, banking

> Do any other ZA users have local access to this group ?

yes and no - it seems my last postings in 2004/2005 was the only ones here
in this gorup. Bit i come from european inet...

My postings asked about existing interests in starting/growing
Linux-User-Groups (LUG) with international partnerships to some of us in SA
and/or especially in cape town. No answers come - but a lot of spammers
posted their porn and ads shit here...

I would be happe to hear from some real linux / Unix users - private or
companies wich are fiddelng with open source here (in the za.unis.misc)
again ~;).

hth

greetings,

Niels Dettenbach.
http://www.syndicat.com
http://www.syndicat.co.za

CMHQ

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Sep 14, 2006, 5:00:07 AM9/14/06

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Hi Chris,

I can also see you, but all the za. related newsgroups seem to very quiet
lately?? Maybe newsgroups are not the prefferred way communicating anymore??
I donno, havent been on myself in quite a long time.

Regards
Mars

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Sep 19, 2006, 9:00:49 AM9/19/06

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CMHQ wrote:

I love it all the time.
doc

Bernd Jendrissek

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Sep 19, 2006, 11:29:52 AM9/19/06

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<in...@minds.co.za> wrote:
>I can also see you, but all the za. related newsgroups seem to very
>quiet lately?? Maybe newsgroups are not the prefferred way
>communicating anymore?? I donno, havent been on myself in quite a long
>time.

Yes, more and more people prefer to log into 100 different websites and
sit there waiting forever for each message to load, so that they can
top-reply [that presupposes there is any quoting at all] with a long and
incoherent missive that the website swallows when they accidentally
press the "back" button in their browser. Oh, and they can't easily
tell who wrote what either, each message is just a "comment" to the top
article.

I can't imagine why people would ever want to participate in newsgroups.

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