question about posting here

Well, not really a question about posting...just wasn't sure what else to
call it.

I haven't hay any new posts show up for about 10 days on here. Then, today,
it caught me up. Any idea what the problem was? Just wondering if it is on
my end or if it was a server thing.....

 

Your last post here was on 6-3 under this name, on my ISP's server.

 

I didn't mean just MY posts... there was nothing from anyone for 2 weeks...
then, yesterday, all the ones from the past weeks showed up...

???

Jennifer Motta
www.jennifermotta.com

 

How do you get here? A news server via a newsreader or via an online
service such as Google Groups? If it's a newsreader accessing a news
server, it was probably a server problem. What server? If it was a
server problem, then it should have affected anyone using that server.
An e-mail to your server should help too. We need more info.

 

I get here through Outlook Express. I didn't realize there was any other
way to get here.
How would I email my server?

 

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From: "Jennifer M." <>
Newsgroups: alt.photography
References: <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: question about posting here
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X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180



Outlook is the newsreader...the server is bellsouth or verizon? Anyway,
there have been problems
with several servers for the past few days.

 

How to contact your server? Assuming it isn't a home server... and you are
paying bellsouth or verizon...

If you subscribe via bellsouth then send them an e-mail. If you use
verison, then send them an e-mail.

Bellsouth is www.bellsouth.net Go to the site and find the info to send
them an e-mail. Presumably
verizon would be the same..... www.verizon.net or verizon.com
also bellsouth's portal is
www.bellsouth.com

 

Thanks for the info! Its verizon btw. I'm not suprised...they seem to have
server trouble often

 

Well, it can be hard to explain and it can be controversial too, but
you can get here via a bunch of different 'news readers' by accessing a
whole raft of assorted 'news servers'. Judging by a followup post, I
assume you use Outlook Express to access a news server provided by your
ISP, so that's who you'd want to check with to find out if their server
was down or not.

You can access a news server using several other news readers. Outlook
Express is only one of them (albeit, probably the most popular). You
can also use a whole host of other servers to get here. Some are even
very cheap or even free. (Do a Google search on 'news servers' and
'free news servers'.) You can set up your news reader (Outlook
Express) to use more than one news server so that you will have a
backup in the future if you have problems with your primary. When I
used Outlook Express, I subscribed to Newsguy ($40 yrly for basic
service?) and used Teranews as a backup. Teranews has a free version
that gives you limited access after a very small registration fee.
(Was $4 then.) The advantage of paying for a news server is total and
complete access to everything on Usenet, which some ISP servers limit
to a greater or lesser extent. Usually the more bandwidth you use, the
more it costs.

To confuse you even further, you can also use the method I use
nowadays, which is Google Groups. It is a web based portal and require
only a browser and no news reader at all. I like it because of it's
propagation and the way it organizes a thread. Google also bought the
largest searchable database of old Usenet posts in existence (the old
Dejanews), so you can check out old posters and posts online. Find it
at http://groups-beta.google.com or click on the "groups" button at the
Google search engine in case my link doesn't work.

There are a lot of Usenet tutorials online, but beware the dates on
some of them. They can be really 'old news'. ;o)

Hope this helps.

Kitt

 

Thanks for all the info, I had no idea people got here any other way than
outlook express. I'll have to check out the things you said.