Re: iso image

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux, in article
<we7Oi.514$th2.49@pd7urf3no>, The Wizard of Oz wrote:

Moe Trin wrote:

deja disappeared in 2001 - the news archives were absorbed into the
current google archive.

I did not know that. I thought it was still around.

I haven't seen any such posts in years - as I recall they declared
bankruptcy in 2000 give or take. The domain registration still exists
(whois.markmonitor.com), but both deja.com and dejanews.com are owned
by google, and 'www.dejanews.com' is a CNAME for groups.google.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.

Ah, but they do have a choice - a LARGE one. There are a number of
news servers that provide free access - some require registration,
some don't. There are also a large number of "low cost" news servers
with anything from a one-time registration fee on up through a monthly
fee. These tend to have much less abuse, and are less likely to be
killfiled than some of the free or anonymizing servers. Yes, there are
people who can't afford even ten Euro a year, but that doesn't lock
them out of reading/posting. There are even Usenet newsgroups that
discuss these services, and rate the various alternatives.

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.

[selene ~]$ find /var/spool/slrnpull/news -type f -exec grep Path: {} \;
| tr '!' '\n' | sort -u | grep google | grep -E "(news|nntp)"
news1.google.com
news2.google.com
news3.google.com
news4.google.com
postnews.google.com
[selene ~]$

I'd rather doubt that you'd be allowed to connect - and a quick check
with the DNS servers at two ISPs and at google doesn't resolve those
five hosts, which doesn't surprise me in the least. Larger companies
with major network presence often have their own news servers, but
they tend to be filtered/firewalled such that only "internal" access
by employees is allowed. With ours, you can't even post from it,
which is why I'm using a dial-up from the computers in the break area.

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?

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.

I was hoping to find the DHS press release or equal. The majority of
the pronouncements I've seen are dubious at best.

http://browsehappy.com/

The Inquirer, US Government warns against Internet Explorer:

The US Government has sent out a warning out to internet users
through its Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), pleading
users to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

That's a substantial embellishment of the CERT bulletins - but CERT is
not in any way a part of DHS.

http://www.techuser.net/index.php?id=47

Nothing obvious.

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.

A search for DHS and IE or Outlook just turns up noise. Lots of it.

Old guy
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