BTW, I know we were talking about Cox newsgroup (NNTP) issues and here's
my latest:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/...9f4bc0f2_o.jpg

Noticed the newsgroup - it's the damned cox internet group for RI.

Oh pshaw, on Sat 10 Nov 2007 01:28:44p, T meant to say...

> BTW, I know we were talking about Cox newsgroup (NNTP) issues and here's
> my latest:
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/...9f4bc0f2_o.jpg
>
> Noticed the newsgroup - it's the damned cox internet group for RI.
>
>

Ouch! That would really **** me off.

--
Wayne Boatwright

(to e-mail me direct, replace cox dot net with gmail dot com)
__________________________________________________ ____________

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In article >, ost
says...
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:28:44 -0500, T wrote:
>
> > BTW, I know we were talking about Cox newsgroup (NNTP) issues and here's
> > my latest:
> >
> > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/...9f4bc0f2_o.jpg
> >
> > Noticed the newsgroup - it's the damned cox internet group for RI.
>
> If the active file only ever had 6 articles in it, then it wasn't
> worth subscribing to in the first place.
>
> -sw
>

I don't know, every now and then a good bashing of Cox pops up in there.

In article >, ost
says...
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:24:05 -0500, T wrote:
>
> > In article >, ost
> > says...
> >> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:28:44 -0500, T wrote:
> >>
> >>> BTW, I know we were talking about Cox newsgroup (NNTP) issues and here's
> >>> my latest:
> >>>
> >>> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/...9f4bc0f2_o.jpg
> >>>
> >>> Noticed the newsgroup - it's the damned cox internet group for RI.
> >>
> >> If the active file only ever had 16 articles in it, then it wasn't
> >> worth subscribing to in the first place.
> >
> > I don't know, every now and then a good bashing of Cox pops up in there.
>
> But the news active only ever had 16 articles in the group for
> it's (relative) lifetime. Unless they renumbner their articles
> often (a big no-no), then it wouldn't appear to be a very active
> newsgroup.
>
> RFC, on my server, is up to article # 1,709,736.
>
> -sw
>
>

At least once a week they pull the renumbering routine. It's annoying.