Last Orders at the Free Speech Bar

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Before the big red button is pressed to send this newsgroup into oblivion.

Before the Pied Piper begins playing his tune to lead all to the forums.

Before the rug of free speech is pulled from underneath the average Windows
user.

Before the Iranians get nuked for playing with a centrifuge and a bit of
Uranium.....

**NOW** is the time to ask those burning questions you've always wanted to
ask but never dared before.

Don't waste the opportunity. It could be your last ....
 
YOU ARE AN IDIOT! THE MICROSOFT NEWS GROUPS THAT WERE KILLED OFF THIS
MONTH ARE STILL THERE ON NON-MICROSOFT NNTP NEWS GROUP SERVERS! JUST
FYI! THREAD CLOSED!
 
You are absolutely right! These are the burning questions I've never had
any answers to.



Why are we here on the planet?

How did we get here?

What is our purpose and why?

Where do we all stand in the grand scheme of things?

What will be our final outcome, and where are we going?

Finally, what will evolution make us look like, say in a million years?



The burning question is, will all these questions be answered before the big
red button is pressed on these newsgroups?

Rod
 
Before the Pied Piper begins playing his tune to lead all to the forums.
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Too late, that tune has been playing for a few weeks now when people ask
where a newsgroup went or where a newsgroup is, they are given a link to
the forums, which are not newsgroups but they give that answer anyhow.
 
Rod said:
You are absolutely right! These are the burning questions I've never had
any answers to.



Why are we here on the planet?

How did we get here?

What is our purpose and why?

Where do we all stand in the grand scheme of things?

What will be our final outcome, and where are we going?

Finally, what will evolution make us look like, say in a million years?



The burning question is, will all these questions be answered before the
big red button is pressed on these newsgroups?

Rod
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Great questions. For most of them, I'll have to refer you to God.

I'll also refer you to the works of the great theologians and philosophers
down through the ages, which, are currently still available in long form, in
what used to be referred to as 'books'.

Those raised on the WWW's hypertext linked associative thinking, and online
games may not be aware of such a phenomenon, but 'books' can in fact still
be found in many parts of a modern home and be purchased in modern shopping
centres.

What books look like ....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Bookspine.jpg

Book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

Reading books is similar to reading screens, with which we are all familiar,
but they do not need to be turned on. Moving from page to page is actually
achieved by the physical turning of a page using one's hands, rather than
the scrolling of a mousewheel or click of a mouse button.

If anyone is still unsure as to what a book is, then perhaps the best
strategy would be to find one of those wrinkly-skinned old humans with white
hair, and to ask them. They may well still remember what a book is, although
admittedly the memory of such objects is fading fast.

What humanity may look like in a million years (asssuming we're even around)
is a particularly good question. 'Homo Interneticus' is one term I've heard
used, but I suppose that type already exists, so that probably isn't
thinking that far ahead. Actually I shudder to think what we might look
like, given that the results of cloning and other genetic experiments on
future generations aren't yet fully apparent.
 
milt said:
Too late, that tune has been playing for a few weeks now when people ask
where a newsgroup went or where a newsgroup is, they are given a link to
the forums, which are not newsgroups but they give that answer anyhow.
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True, he's already been playing his pipe softly in the background. The
volume of his pipe is likely at some stage to be increased.
 
This group isn't going anywhere - you just won't have MS monitoring it
any more.
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Microsoft is the host. If they stop hosting it, it's gone.

Old posts will still exist on mirror sites.
 
Microsoft is the host. If they stop hosting it, it's gone.

Old posts will still exist on mirror sites.
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Sorry, but that's not true. If the mirror sites stay in existence, any
of us can continue to post there, and the newsgroup can continue to be
active.

It may be, and will likely be, far less active, but it doesn't
necessarily go away just because Microsoft wants it to.
 
Microsoft is the host. If they stop hosting it, it's gone.
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Microsoft isn't the host - there hasn't been any one single host for as
long as it has been hooked up to Usenet. When Microsoft drops out, the
group will still continue as part of the Usenet network, and you will
be able to read and post to it via any news service that carries it.
 
Microsoft isn't the host - there hasn't been any one single host for as
long as it has been hooked up to Usenet. When Microsoft drops out, the
group will still continue as part of the Usenet network, and you will
be able to read and post to it via any news service that carries it.
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What you and Ken Blake say makes sense. I hide my head in shame.

I should have figured it out. Somewhere along the line a few years ago, I
used one or another of those mirrors occasionally...
 
What you and Ken Blake say makes sense. I hide my head in shame.

I should have figured it out. Somewhere along the line a few years ago, I
used one or another of those mirrors occasionally...
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No big deal. We all make errors.

In anticipation of Microsoft closing down all their newsgroups, I've
already switched to using other news servers (aioe.org and
eternal-september.org) instead of theirs.
 
No big deal. We all make errors.
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I know, but I like to be a drama queen on occasion :-)
In anticipation of Microsoft closing down all their newsgroups, I've
already switched to using other news servers (aioe.org and
eternal-september.org) instead of theirs.
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I've been tempted anyway to drop out of the two I read, since I haven't
used Media Center for years, and I no longer have Vista. This'll make it
easy :-)

But we'll see. I'll check Eternal-September and Albasani before my final
decision.
 
But we'll see. I'll check Eternal-September and Albasani before my
final decision.
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I don't like aioe for several reasons - it doesn't require a sign-up,
so it has become a haven for spammers and trolls. It's also unreliable
and sometimes goes down for hours or days at a time. I do keep it set
up as a backup, though.

Eternal-September is occasionally down, too, but they do pretty well
for a free service. They have good spam filters in place and I think
they do respond to abuse complaints.

I prefer individual.net, which isn't free, but only costs 10 EUR per
year, payable through Paypal. It's rock-solid reliable - I've never
seen the service be unavailable in the two years I've been a
subscriber. It's worth the small cost to me for such good service.
 
I don't like aioe for several reasons - it doesn't require a sign-up,
so it has become a haven for spammers and trolls. It's also unreliable
and sometimes goes down for hours or days at a time. I do keep it set
up as a backup, though.

Eternal-September is occasionally down, too, but they do pretty well
for a free service. They have good spam filters in place and I think
they do respond to abuse complaints.

I prefer individual.net, which isn't free, but only costs 10 EUR per
year, payable through Paypal. It's rock-solid reliable - I've never
seen the service be unavailable in the two years I've been a
subscriber. It's worth the small cost to me for such good service.
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Well, I seem to be mentally veering (at a snail's pace, mind you) into the
trend to give up on newsgroups, so I might not follow your good advice :-)

I like E-S, actually, and when I had some trouble with Albasani a couple of
weeks ago, I reverted to E-S. But a few days later, Albasani was back in
the top position in my newsreader, so I stayed with it.

Either that or I'm hallucinating. Is it the three cups of coffee per day?
The occasional mint candy? My attempts at trying to learn to code in
Android? ...In actuality, I think that over a long weekend, I just forgot
what I did and got confused :-)
 
You have NO idea how Usenet works, clearly.
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Apparently, neither do you, since you don't seem to understand that the
conversation has continued for 8 more days since that post.
 
Apparently, neither do you, since you don't seem to understand that the
conversation has continued for 8 more days since that post.
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Meh made up for his delayed and ad hominem post by leaving out any and all
useful information, so don't be so hard on him :-)
 
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