I'm wanting to discuss the RFD for rec.ponds.moderated however someone
has suggested that if I subscribe to news.groups.proposals via google
any messages will get rejected....so I thought I would try this test
message....my news server provider does not carry this group but no way
do I want to be excluded because of this....

If this message appears....then it will reassure those like me who want
to join the discussion that we do not have to wait on the whim of our
service providers....

Gill

Gill Passman wrote:

I know I am replying to myself...but the answer is WE CAN POST VIA
GOOGLE GROUPS....so there is no need whatsoever for anyone to switch IDs
or newserver providers to get their opinions heard legitimately....I
cross posted this to rec.ponds as well as news.groups.proposals and
there was no issue at all....it appears on both groups....

For information only

Gill

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:59:49 CST, "Gill Passman" taylorpassman.co.uk>
wrote:

I got the message fine on Giganews, but if anyone has any hassle, feel free
to email me.

"Gill Passman" taylorpassman.co.uk> wrote:

I asked my News Reader to carry news.groups.proposals. They now do and they
posted a notice to that effect.

"Gill Passman" taylorpassman.co.uk> wrote in message
news:458204e2$0$758$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:59:49 CST, "Gill Passman" taylorpassman.co.uk> wrote in
<1166147735.623078.270800@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

It would be very helpful for all future RFDs if you could
respectfully ask your news service provider to carry
news.groups.proposals (moderated).

If your news server needs evidence that it is a valid group
or wants help setting it up properly, you can give them
the board e-mail address: big-8.org>.

Meanwhile, the Google approach seems to be working.

Marty

Why all the banter about subscribing too or asking your news service
provider to subscribe or sending info via of to another, whcn its
readily available here on google or am I missing something here.......

A lot of people don't like using Google...which makes them even more
supportive of a Usenet group.

Jim

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:07:44 CST, "Tristan" yahoo.com> wrote in
<1166217574.989097.315670@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

I pay for a subscription to a commercial news provider because
I like reading groups with a piece of software that shows
only posts I haven't read in thread order.

I love Google and use it all the time to dig things up. It's
a great archive for Usenet and for the Internet. But I don't
enjoy the page-based structure for staying current with
newsgroups.

See this page for a list of newsreaders:

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_readers

You can get Thunderbird for free. You need to have access
to a news server to use a news reader. See this page
for a list of some news servers (if your ISP doesn't
provide newsgroups--that'd be the first place to check):

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers

Tristan wrote:

Google is one of many UseNet providers and not a particularly good
one at that.

A note to the folks on rec.ponds and anyone else thinking of a new
group - It is up to the proponent and moderators to drive propagation.
Since most NSP/ISPs only pay attention to their own customers
that generally means doing off-group correspondnce with folks
coming in from new services. Get those folks to ask they NSP/ISP,
it's a social function not a technical one by the mods.

News.groups.proposals is still new enough to be going through the
same thing.

Doug Freyburger moderator news.groups.proposals soc.religion.asatru