Re: Thanks for the "Welcome"!
Message #7 Posted by James M. Prange on 27 Oct 2003, 7:19 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Paul Brogger
Google is great for its archives. By doing a search of the newsgroup on
Google, you can avoid asking the same question yet again, and also find
answers from experts who no longer participate. Note that a good deal of
the design of the current RPL calculators goes way back at least to the
28C. You'll probably look a lot smarter if you search for an answer
before you ask a question.
But the last time that I checked, there's a several hour delay between
updates of Google's server, so for active participation it's not so
great.
Your ISP should, of course, allow you to read and post to the newsgroup,
but I find that my ISP's server is sometimes rather slow in getting
updates, and on rare occasions isn't updated for a few days. Lately,
I've been having a lot of trouble trying to post anything through my
ISP's server. My ISP agrees that there's a problem, but I guess that
it's not a high priority item; weeks later, it still hasn't been fixed.
The best "web-based" *free* newsreader that I've found is at
http://mailgate.org/. To use it, you do have to register and agree
to its "Terms of Service". Trolls and spammers may find the terms of
service to be onerous, but I expect that most would find them
reasonable. Read the legalese for yourself. And you do have to login
every time; hopefully, your browser will make that easy enough. Note
that Mailgate does do at least some filtering; I don't see the obvious
spam on Mailgate.
But reading the news on a web-based newsreader has some disadvantages.
For example, you won't be able to use your own filters, and you'll
probably see things with a proportional font.
After you've registered with Mailgate, you can use your own newsreader
with the server "newsreader.mailgate.org", rather a better experience in
my opinion.
Regards,
James
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