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Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions?

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Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> wrote in 
news:slrnkf9icr.fs1.ibuprofin@fermi.phx.az.us:

>>I usually never post Linux questions from Giganews, the posts go back
>>to 2008 and that is practically useless.
> 
>]User-Agent: Xnews/2009.05.01
> 
> Don't know Xnews because I don't have any windoze boxes, but if you
> can't tell it that if it has a large number of articles available it
> should ask you how many to download, you may want to look for a more
> user-friendly news tool.  I'm using slrn, and it's configured to ask
> me if there are more than 100 unread articles in a newsgroup.  I can
> therefore tell it to just grab the latest N articles in a group.

I like slrn in Linux. But for 'doze, I like Xnews, it is what remains of 
"News Express" from years gone by. Even though the author is not the 
same, some college kid wrote News Express and then abandoned it. Shame he 
did not donate the source code. I really did like the interface. So Luu 
Tran made Xnews and that is as close as I can get to it. Same thing 
basically.

I did download slrn for Windows but getting it to work is so much 
headache that it really is not worth the effort.

>>I remember there was a server that was good for this stuff, aoi or
>>something like that. It was a free public news server that only
>>carried text articles and was particulary good for Linux questions.
> 
> Aragorn suggests that may be aioe.org, and it's a wide open server
> which is therefore pretty badly abused by trolls.  As a consequence, I
> (like many, I believe) filter off "articles from" and "responses to
> articles from" that server in a number of groups.   In several groups
> I try to scan daily, that filtering makes a VAST improvement in the
> signal-to-noise ratio.

Yah, Aragorn just told me about aioe. Not using it. When I need help, I 
don't want to be filtered out and I try to be polite, repsectful, and 
appreciative of the help offered here.

>>I must find that one again and get off giganews for Linux help.
> 
> Usenet is Usenet - Last I heard, aioe.org carried about 47000 groups,
> compared to 111000 on giganews (but even that is meaningless because
> many of the groups are dead or useless).  For perspective, the list
> of "Big-8" groups (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*,
> soc.*, and talk.*) totals just 1995 - no, make that 1996 because they
> just added "comp.mobile.android" on the 10th.   Last I looked at the
> .newsrc file for giganews, they had 4724 "Big-8" groups, but at least
> they _have_ the groups.   I don't know how many types of fish Ohm's
> Fish Market carries, but the "Big-8" lists just 8 news groups with the
> string "fish" in the name and giganews carries 116 of those 8.   Does
> that make it any better or worse?   Who knows   ;-)

Wow, you are making my head spin. Thanks OG. Hey, didn't you used to be 
"Moe Trin"? or something like that in previous, older posts?

>         Old guy



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~Ohmster

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OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Ohmster <root@dev.nul> - 2013-01-12 17:25 -0600
  Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-01-13 00:37 +0000
    Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Ohmster <root@dev.nul> - 2013-01-14 17:56 -0600
      Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-01-15 01:00 +0100
        Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Ohmster <root@dev.nul> - 2013-01-23 16:37 -0600
  Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2013-01-13 01:59 +0000
    Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Ohmster <root@dev.nul> - 2013-01-14 17:54 -0600
      Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-01-15 01:07 +0100
        Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Ohmster <root@dev.nul> - 2013-01-23 16:12 -0600
          Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-01-24 15:16 +0100
      Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2013-01-15 03:14 +0000
        Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Ohmster <root@dev.nul> - 2013-01-23 16:35 -0600
          Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-01-24 15:21 +0100
          Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2013-01-24 20:16 +0000

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