Re: OT: Anyone using Tweaknews?

"Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in message news:0cc7a3a1-5abb-453c-bc7f-cd08753fbe46@ieee.org...

On 20/07/2024 5:51 am, Pimpom wrote:

On 19-07-2024 11:40 pm, Jeff Layman wrote:

On 19/07/2024 13:25, Pimpom wrote:

Returning after a long absence from Usenet.
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I remembered that I have a block account with Tweaknews, checked to see
that my account is still valid and that I've hardly made a dent in the
10GB block. I installed Thunderbird and configured it to use
news.tweaknews.eu but haven't been able to download the newsgroup list.

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Right click on the Tweaknews news server name in TB's folders pane, and click on "Subscribe". A box will open with all the
newsgroups available. Click on "Refresh" to update the list. Then just tick the box of the NGs you want to subscribe to.
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I'm posting this via eternal-september. Is anyone using Tweaknews? Is
the server down? How has it been performing recently?

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I don't use Tweaknews, but can't see why TB should deal with it any differently to other news servers.
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Oh, I know the procedure for getting the newsgroups list and subscribing to selected ones. It's how I posted the question via
news.eternal-september.org.
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The problem is with Tweaknews. It won't download the list. It seems their newsserver is down. I've been trying at intervals for
the past 12 hours. Thunderbird just wouldn't connect to the server.
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I submitted a query to their support several hours ago. No action yet apart from the acknowledgement.

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It could just be the latest international computer crash. There's nearly a page on it my local newspaper.

It was predicted in 1961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Fnd_in_a_Lbry

https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/knuthe/kuriosa/draper.pdf

My favourite line:
"although hardly anybody knew anything any longer, everybody knew how to find out everything."

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"The IT outage was caused by a fault in the "Falcon sensor" used by the US-based cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike".
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It seems to have messed up a lot of services around the world.
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