On 9 Jul 2006 at 0:00, dasimov@earthlink.net wrote:
I recommend using Google Groups for Usenet and sci.math.research in particular.
Off topic, but *why*? -- I've tried using Google groups and find it mostly awful. I've never had any luck with its properly keeping track o what I've already seen, no kill files, you can't tag/highlight threads/posts/authors you're especially interested in, you can't [easily] save interesting posts or sort them into folders for later reference, you have essentially no control over how [and what] is displayed. It seems so inferior to using even a mediocre news client, much less a good one, that I'm surprised at the recommendation...
.. For one thing, you can read *all*, not just some, of the posts there.
I guess I don't understand -- I suppose if you're limited to comparing two lousy web-interfaces-to-usenet you might have these sorts of problems, but I've never know of a news client that had any trouble reading "all" of the posts in any newsgroup. As for cancels, that's a function of the specific news server, and some do and some don't honor cancels. The reason why cancels are often ignored by servers is that since there's no authentication and cancels are so easy to forge [I have to do that all the time for the newsgroup I moderate..:o)] that a malicious cretan can cause a lot of trouble. But, for instance, Airnews and Supernews both do a sort-of-sanity-check and then honor reasonable cancels. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--