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Re: New user

#50
From: Ed Mullen
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:19
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Sharky wrote:
> Bob@cool.com wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:34:14 -0400, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>>
>> Once you get the Altopia news service working (which you have, since
>> your message is here), then be sure to *refresh* the list of groups.
>> I just joined from Comcast also, and I had a couple of false starts
>> trying to use the old Comcast list of groups without doing a couple of
>> "refreshes" first.
> 
> There is a possibility that the OP posted his message on another
> service that propagated it here.  Any responses by Altopia users that
> post "only" to this group may not be seen by the OP because they are
> not propagated.  By crossposting to another group that exists on the
> OP's old providers server, we can be fairly sure he will see it in his
> altnet.general newsgroup if he is indeed not using Altopia.  Group
> added (I think it might exist)
> 
>>> Just signed up for the Altopia news service.  Read the Altopia Web page 
>>> where it said:  "All groups (alt.*, binaries, etc.) included."
>>>
>>> So, where are all the alt groups?  I specifically came to this service 
>>> because Comcast has dropped its Usenet service and I regularly watch the 
>>> following groups:
>>>
>>> alt.fan.mozilla
>>> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets
>>> alt.html
>>> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
>>> alt.online-service.comcast
>>> alt.apache.configuration
>>>
>>> and others.  Cannot find them.
> 

Thanks to all who replied.

Refresh did the trick.

-- 
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
A Messy Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen And This Kitchen Is Delirious
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From: Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net>
Newsgroups: altnet.general,alt.test
Subject: Re: New user
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:19:48 -0400
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