🚀 go-pugleaf

Bob wrote:
> andrew wrote:
>> On 2008-08-05, Bob <invalid.no@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> andrew wrote:
>>
>>>> Gary if you do not get an answer here perhaps you could try at 
>>>> alt.os.linux.ubuntu which is the usenet home for ubuntu.
>>  
>>> The way Australian ISP's are dropping their NNTP mirrors, some
>>> Aussies may only have Usenet access through Google, which doesn't
>>> carry alt.os.linux.ubuntu
>>>
>>> However, despite an increasing workload, these two cyber services
>>> still provide free NNTP access for those of us who would otherwise be
>>> unable to access alt.os.linux.ubuntu
>>>
>>> http://news.motzarella.org/RegisterNewsAccount.php
>>> http://news.aioe.org/
>>
>> And of course for the small fee of �10 you get great access from
>> individual.net. Mind you it still puzzles me why googlegroups does not
>> archive alt.os.linux.ubuntu.
>>   Andrew
> 
> Jeez, Andrew, maybe there's no employee left at Google groups who
> even knows how to add an outside group to the loop. Don't know if my
> memory's been 'enhanced' by nostalgia, but seems to me Alta Vista had
> a vastly superior Usenet search engine.
> 
> More interesting to me (is there any impotence greater than that of
> the 'concerned' citizen?) is a new government determined to practice
> its vote sustaining power on a media it and most voters know very
> little about, and a corresponding lack of protest from those most
> affected now and potentially by both new and proposed changes to 
> internet infrastructure.
> 
> Seems Cisco is developing new control technology for the Chinese
> masters to whom Kevin Rudd has already bowed.
> http://tinyurl.com/cisco-china
> 
wow have i stirred a hornets nest or what thanks all for your help still 
playing up but done as advised and is downloading some of the updates?
thanks again Gary