🚀 go-pugleaf

pwinter@best.com (Patty Winter) wrote in message news:<9tmc1c$eam$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>...
> In article <9t0cbr$pb9$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
> Jeff Gostin  <jgostin@eternal.org> wrote:
> >As of 21 NOV 2001, my ability to access shell2 will be turned off as part of
> >the migration process. With it goes my ability to read best.*. Thus, it is
> >time for a final fare-thee-well. It's been a great 5 years, and it's been a
> >distinct pleasure being a part of this community.
> 
> I was talking with one of the migration support techs a couple
> of days ago (couldn't get SMTP to work; turned out to be a setting
> in Eudora that I had to configure a little differently because I'm
> using an older version than their instructions cover), and he
> mentioned that they were thinking of setting up a "best.general"
> newsgroup on the Verio news server. Obviously, it wouldn't have
> quite the intimacy of the current one (or of Malch's best.general),
> because it would be visible to the entire Verio community. But still, 
> it would be a nice way for us to keep in touch and (personal agenda 
> coming here :-)) get help from other Besties about various aspects 
> of the migration.

I saw in a post to a Verio newsgroup that posts to best. general (and 
other best.* newsgroups) appear on Google Groups. Since I switched 
to a Verio POP (and was migrated to a Verio server), I no longer have 
access to the Best news server, so I checked on Google and sure enough, 
the best.general posts are there. I needed to create a Google account to 
post this here, but anyone can view these posts on the Web.

(Since I can't disguise my email address on Google, I am 
opening myself up to more spam, but it's already gotten bad enough 
that I don't really care any more. I guess that means the spammers 
have won. . .)

Of course, once the old nntp*.best.com server is turned off, no new 
posts to best.* will go through (I think!), but old posts will still be 
archived at Google Groups (going back to November 1995!).

<http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search>

MZ