Re: Hmph. There IS something wrong with Usenet.

From: Nae (pithy_at_millenicom.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:09:19 -0400

raspie wrote:
> Another issue is the
> empty "title" when you respond to a post. Marietta reported this and
> perhaps you also experienced it when you posted in the gateway.

Nope. I blocked and copied the title just as instructed in one of your
other posts. That post still does not show anywhere but in your forum.

I am glad you took down the misleading front page forum post notices.

I don't like the fact that the folks who made the Usenet posts
originally cannot respond to any resulting comments generated by your
registered posters anywhere but in your own forum. I am glad to see that
you are planning to have that one remedied.

I also have to admit I don't think it is doing the computer "illiterate"
(your term, not mine) any great service by taking away the necessity for
them to learn how to do things for themselves. What happens when the
site, for whatever reason, goes down ... and they all go down from time
to time, even the Desk does. Of course I realize Usenet posts are not
likely to generate an earth shattering immediate need ... I guess it is
just the principal behind it that rubs me the wrong way.

I look forward to your email :)
Nae

Nae Wrote:
>
>>Well I am sure confused. I saw the Gateway. Went there. Saw all the
>>Usenet posts, even posted an answer to one ... that never showed up
>>here, or at least not through my newsreader ... so, does that mean the
>>folks at Scribera can read scimed and even reply to posts there in
>>their
>>own forum ... but those of us on scimed will not see those replies
>>unless we go there to read them? Gotta hand it to them ... pretty
>>slick
>>Willie <gg>
>>
>>
>
>
> Nae,
>
> We mentioned in another post that our programmers have completed work
> on the "read" portion of the gateway and the feeds from Usenet are
> coming into the gateway as expected.
>
> Now, they are working on the "posting" and "propagating" of gateway
> posts to Usenet so that people in Sci.med can see the posts originating
> from the gateway. We have encountered some software issues and the
> programmers are tweaking/debugging the software. Another issue is the
> empty "title" when you respond to a post. Marietta reported this and
> perhaps you also experienced it when you posted in the gateway.
>
>
> Nae Wrote:
>
>>
>>Obviously I am not the only one stumbling across that question as
>>someone else posted on Scribera asking the very same thing and that
>>post
>>does not show in my newsreader either ... put more bluntly ... smells
>>suspiciously like hijacking the posts from scimed to lure people to
>>Scribera under some pretty darn ambiguous pretenses ... including that
>>of the main page showing scimed posts as being "forum" traffic for
>>that
>>site. While I guess Usenet posts are public domain to do whatever
>>anybody feels like ... "tweaking the Gateway" is not exactly what I
>>would call truth in advertising ...
>>
>>Nae
>>
>
>
> Nobody is hijacking Usenet. Like I said, the "posting" portion is being
> worked on right now. We have taken down the main page sci.med title
> feeds and will not present them again to prevent misunderstanding of
> our intentions.
>
>
> We will email you privately, and we hope to clarify any
> misunderstanding.
>
>