[Coco] Hello All

[Kenneth Schunk]

Stephen:

The main problem I see with posting from the group to usenet that is 
the presence of my e-mail address in anything I post. Once upon a time 
it was fine to post to usenet with a real e-mail address, but these 
days any address I use that is posted there quickly turns into a spam 
collector. I can use my real address here knowing that it's unlikely to 
be harvested by a robot someplace and added to a spam list.

Ken

And I must say that it's unlikely that Windows XP service pack whatever 
will change the way I use the internet, since I'm using Mac OS-X. Then 
again it might - perhaps it will stop some of the script kiddie 
attempts on my firewall!

On May 29, 2004, at 2:38 AM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If someone is using Outlook Express and there is a very good chance 
> that
> they are as OE is the most used news reader.
>
> That their ISP is Earthlink's is also a very good conclusion as it has 
> so
> many subscribers.
>
> When persons click on "Newsgroups" in OE they get a huge list of 
> newsgroups.
> Overwhelming them for sure as the count was 29, 232 the last time I 
> checked.
>
> They may search for keywords or just scroll down the list looking for 
> hints
> of something they might want to read.
>
> When they find a newsgroups that might be perhaps interesting, they can
> click on subscribe (Only internally in OE), click go to and then 
> download a
> few headers and assuming that they are connected to the Internet read 
> the
> message bodies by just clicking.
>
> If they determine that they are not interested, they just UnSubscribe 
> (Only
> internally in OE),  and go back to the Newsgroups list and look for 
> more
> newsgroups to take a quick look at.
>
> This method of stumbling on UseNet *"Bit.Listserv.CoCo"* News Group is 
> what
> we have lost.
>
> If they are just starting out they may just see a lot of Spam and no 
> recent
> traffic about CoCo's.
>
> I wonder if Earthlink may be willing to delete all the old messages 
> which
> are overwhelmed with Spam?
>
> IMHO we should find a way and start posting the groups messages to the
> UseNet *"Bit.Listserv.CoCo"* News Group as soon as we can. A new 
> beginning.
>
> Any nay-sayers would be requested to be specific with their problems 
> and
> help requested to overcome the problems.
>
> The number of new CoCo posters has been a steady rate of several each 
> week.
> I add their names to my address book and flag all CoCo messages so 
> that any
> new member posting is recognized by me.  This is just the rate of new 
> people
> posting, I assume that many more are quietly reading.
>
> We really have a growing group. Are counts being kept?
>
> The above is also true for other news readers and other ISP's.
>
> IMHO the time is right to restart UseNet *"Bit.Listserv.CoCo"* News 
> Group
> with lots of real CoCo traffic.
>
> We have so much going on that is so very good that we should become 
> more
> visible on UseNet.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> The upcoming change to Windows XP, Service pack 2 (SP2) is a major 
> change to
> the internet for all users of Windows XP.
>
> I suspect that just about everyone will switch to this new way of 
> using the
> internet. Those persons who are slow to change will be pressured by 
> their
> ISP's to do so. The ISP's will save money and businesses also. It will 
> be
> high pressure and required.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Both of the methods below assume that persons have discovered 
> information
> about out existence. Low probability that they have.
> -- 
> Stephen H. Fischer <sfischer1 at mindspring.com>
>
> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
>> At 11:35 PM 5/27/04 -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>> Am I correct that it is not possible to read the current messages
>>> leaving no indication that they have?
>>
>> It is possible in two ways:
>>
>> 1. via private news server news.gmane.org (no password to read, 
>> accessible
>> through any ISP): gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
>> 2. via the web: http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/
>>
>> Dennis
>
>
>
>
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