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Re: OT: Where to ask genral Linux Questions?

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.security, in article
<XnsA148C055F2A11MyBigKitty@216.196.97.131>, Ohmster wrote:

>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 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.

>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   ;-)

        Old guy

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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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