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Article #697447Re: How often do you Usenet?
From: Xocyll
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 03:19
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 03:19
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Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >On 2017-02-01, Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote: >> Rudi <ru...@iki.fi> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn >> spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >> >>>30.1.2017, 19.59, Ant kirjoitti: >>> >>>> Do you have an automated refresh checker or something? I have to check >>>> manually in Tin, Pan, and SeaMonke's newsreaders. >>> >>>Nope. I use Forte Agent for news, and that software always requires a >>>manual refresh. >> >> It's a curious thing about agent; >> Usenet has to be manually refreshed, but if you use it for e-mail, that >> can be set to check as often as you want automatically. >> >> Makes you wonder why the usenet reader part never got the same >> functionality. > >I guess polling your own email server frequently is your own business. >Polling a shared usenet server might be seen as rude. Except that when Agent was new and Usenet was popular, almost every ISP carried it for their customers, their _paying_ customers, so polling as often as you wanted would be in no way rude. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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