[Info-vax] NewsGroup has gone very quiet.

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Aug 10, 12:12 pm, Dave <Baxt... at tessco.com> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 8:50 am, Hein RMS van den Heuvel
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> > On Aug 9, 8:27 am, Paul Sture <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
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> > >  Dave <Baxt... at tessco.com> wrote:
> > > > No Posts since August 1st.
> > > It's a Google Groups problem.  Other news feeds are working fine.
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> > Right. And I've let Google know how disappointed I was in the lack of
> > announcements and/or status for this.
> > Some stuff I found while checking this out:
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> > - "Groups Announcements and Alerts"http://groups.google.com/group/groupsknownissues/browse_frm/thread/be...
> > "After careful review of this group, we’ve realized that most of the
> > questions posted here are either duplicate questions or questions
> > answered in our help center. As a result, we’ve decided to archive
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> > - A promising looking pointer to an app status app:http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en
> > But that gave an 401 web error yesterday!
> > Today it claims 'all systems go for the past week'.
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> > -http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/
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> > -http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vms
> > yet an other forum... more wikipedia like. Seems to have potential.
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> Well, something seems to have helped.   I clicked my link this
> morning, expecting to see the usual list of old posts, and
> whadoyaknow, everything was pretty much back to (the old) normal.
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> Thanks to all for rattling the cage.
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> Dave.

Yeah, it came back today.  And I've been checking daily.  :-(

As I said in reply to another post, I'd switch to Eternal September
or similar and a real news reader, but I haven't figured out how
to use, e.g., T-Bird with a (HTML) proxy server: our corporate
firewall requires browsers use the proxy server for the usual
http and https connections.  Eternal September provides port 80
access, but I haven't been able to get T-Bird to talk to it. :-{

Anybody tried SeaMonkey ?

   -Ken