What's up with Google???

Kingfish wrote:
3-4 times in the last week I've posted replies only to get the Oops!
message and that the page is unavailable (reply got wiped out). This
after a masterfully crafted & often witty response on my part which the
group was denied tongue-in-cheek mode off Seriously, is anyone else
seeing this? Most annoying...


Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )


Randy

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...

I sometimes compose in Notepad, saving to a temp directory every now and
then, if it's a long post. Then C&P into whatever I'm posting with.

Jose
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"Jose" wrote in message
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I sometimes compose in Notepad, saving to a temp directory every now and
then, if it's a long post. Then C&P into whatever I'm posting with.

Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Over TECO?

Jose
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"Jose" wrote in message
t...
Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Over TECO?

Jose
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TECO= Type Every Character Over

Haven't used it in 20 years...

John

"Jose" wrote in message
t...
Over TECO?

What can I say? I got spoiled by UNIX... I especially liked 'vi' over 'ed',
although I still use 'sed' for certain things that are easier with it...
Emacs was nice, but 'vi' was something that you could guarantee would be on
every UNIX machine... There might be better editors for a particular flavor
of UNIX, but why should you learn 20 different editors when 'vi' was there?
I stull use 'vi' today, whether I'm on a UNIX flavor box or on a PC...

TECO is still available if you want it though... For free, no less...

http://almy.us/teco.html

"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g
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Jim in NC

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:45:31 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g

There actually are people left who post and read news groups ON
google? It wasn't too bad before Google took over, but it sure went
down hill in a hurry afterwards.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:45:31 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g

There actually are people left who post and read news groups ON
google? It wasn't too bad before Google took over, but it sure went
down hill in a hurry afterwards.

Took over what?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

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Don Poitras

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC), (Don Poitras) wrote in :

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:45:31 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g

There actually are people left who post and read news groups ON
google? It wasn't too bad before Google took over, but it sure went
down hill in a hurry afterwards.

Took over what?

I'm gonna speculate that he's talking about the late,
great DejaNews, whose archives were taken over by
Google in 2001.

DejaNews archived newsgroups and provided a search
engine from around 1995 to 2001.

http://groups.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=timeline.html

I'm personally very grateful for the services Google
provides. Usenet would be a vastly poorer place without
Google. But I understand the hankering on the part of
some to go back to the glory days before Google--or before
DejaNews--when only the best and brightest could figure out
how to find and follow newsgroups. I'm from the September
that Never Ended era myself, so I've only heard about those
halcyon days from grizzled and somewhat cranky elders.

Marty
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