Re: iso image
- From: The Wizard of Oz <Wizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:49:48 GMT
Moe Trin wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux, in article
<TAtNi.278$mG5.187@pd7urf1no>, The Wizard of Oz wrote:
There are some servers such as Deja News, Google, and Webusenet.com(?)
which offer a web interface to the newsgroups.
deja disappeared in 2001 - the news archives were absorbed into the
current google archive. However the O/P is posting from a regular
news server (news.suddenlink.net), not one of the web interfaces.
I did not know that. I thought it was still around.
There appear to be some problems with each. Google for example doesn't
display the date and we frequently see flames from people whining about
posts from six months to a year earlier.
Google also intentionally ignores all abuse reports, allowing spammers
full access without charge. Because of this abuse, a lot of people are
now filtering out all posts that originate through google (trivial
step of blocking all posts with a Message-ID: header ending in
'googlegroups.com'). At the moment, I'm only killfiling such posts in
six of the 84 Usenet groups I try to at least scan daily.
I suppose it is a bit of a trade-off. Generally I'm not interested in what people posting from Google have to say. Unfortunately, as you point out, a lot of ISPs are getting rid of their nntp servers and some people have no choice.
Google is also being used by people whose ISP doesn't bother providing
a Usenet feed - either as a cost cutting measure, or because the admins
are to brane-ded to be using a computer and can't figure out how to set
up such a server. I think it telling that Chinese ISPs like 163.net are
providing what appears to be a full Big-Eight feed as well as a number
of alternative groups (seeing posts via those servers in several of the
alt.os.linux.* groups I scan) - possibly a recognition of the problems
with google groups postings.
I wonder if Google has an actual nntp server... It might be interesting to see if it could interface with a program like pan or BNR2.
About Outlook and Outlook Express, the American Department of Homeland
Security advocate using anything else but those programs.
Do you have a cite for that? Many of the actions of the DHS are useless
window dressing unrelated to facts - to give the illusion of doing
something. On the other hand, CERT has been warning about using those
browsers since the 1990s. Unfortunately, most people use a browser
because it's the only piece of software they've tried.
I should have the link somewhere. I've been collecting them over the years. I'll go through the list then copy and paste everything which looks like it might have the info. It's likely a few years old by now. I'll let you go through the (partial) list.
Old guy
IE unsafe
http://browsehappy.com/
Why Windows is a Security Nightmare
http://www.techuser.net/index.php?id=47
Hope it's one of those two. If it's not here then I've lost the link and you can probably find it on Slashdot. It looks like the rest refer to viruses, DRM, and various hacks.
Later
Mike
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