Re: Newsgroups: was Need a forum for electrical eng. students

Richard wrote:
>
> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:439EED24.7D7FA53F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Richard wrote:
> > >
> > > In the thread "Need a forum for electrical eng. students" in his reply
> to
> > > Rob B
> > > "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:439E6C37.5DCE925@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > <snip>
> > > > Gee, if you would have followed the thread, Jasen Betts told the OP
> > > > to use Google Groups to access ABSE, which is
> > > > news:alt.binaries.schematics.electronic and Google groups doesn't
> carry
> > > > any binaries newsgroup. Can't you keep up? ;-)
> > > >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > 1. How would I know which newsgroups are available on Google Groups?
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/?hl=en&lr=lang_en and take a look to see
> > what they carry.
> >
> > > 2. How would I know the acronym ABSE is the
> > > alt.binaries.schematics.electronic newsgroup?
> >
> >
> > Read the other newsgroups for a while, or do a search on any of the
> > sci.electronics newsgroups on Google Groups with the term ABSE.
> >
> >
> > > Even if I read all the headers, how do I know (or remember) if a certain
> > > provider carries a particular newsgroup? How does one track that
> > > information?
> > >
> > > While it might be nice to know if an individual poster's news provider
> > > carries a particular newsgroup, it may not be worth the effort to verify
> the
> > > capbilities of every poster's news provider. Since I don't yet know what
> > > that level of effort is, I'll reserve judgement on that.
> >
> >
> > What effort? Google Groups does not carry newsgroups with binary in
> > the title.
>
> What I am reading is that this problem applies only to Google Groups. What
> about others who don't carry all the news groups, or is this not an issue?
> Does the probalem only relate to those who don't allow binaries?
> >
> <snip>
> > >
> > > By the way, I noticed John Fields also recommended the OP use
> > > alt.binaries.schematics.electronic. John is a prolific poster to this
> group,
> > > but I guess he can't keep up, either ;-)
> >
> >
> > If it bothers you, you should take that up with John.
> > >
> I have no problem with it. I mentioned it only because that action seemed to
> bother you when Jasen made the same suggestion (albeit, using the acronym).
>
> <snip>
>
> At any rate, thanks for your reply. I have learned something new today.
>
> Richard


Some news servers don't carry any binary newsgroups, and some don't
carry selected text newsgroups. They each have their reasons from not
enough disk storage to not wanting to carry copyrighted materials and
risk a lawsuit some day.

There are still a lot of free or low cost news servers out there. A
little work with Google and the right keywords will help you find plenty
of them. I have a bunch of them bookmarked on a different computer that
isn't working right now.

As far as Jasen goes, I have noticed a lot of bad or incomplete advice
over the past eight months. I have had to work under a lot of critical
requirements. Are you familiar with ISO 9001? The paperwork will cause
a heart attack if you're not careful. :(

As far as learning something today? good for you! Everyone needs
that, every day.

--
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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