them anymore...tough, one thread reappeared after a few days?!
ve never joned that forum) and I wonder why is this happening...
alternatives and none of them provide the ease of use of this format - and the 'new' Google format is just as bad.
Google Groups comes in for some stick but the ability to slide up and down a thread so that each contribution can be viewed immediately just does not exist elsewhere that I can find. The ability to have ten posts open at anyone time and view them with a slider is GG's major attribute IMO. Rob
It DOES matter to you, because the problems you're describing have nothing to do with usenet, but are caused by the specific website you're using.
When you say you "post a message" what you've actually done is send its content to the web server that's running that website.
The webserver is presumably then posting the content to usenet (if it didn't do that then other parasitic websites will never be able to scrape it off any usenet server).
Presumably the webserver also keeps a copy for you to read later. But it might not do; it might rely on scraping a copy of the publically-distributed post off a usenet server later.
Whatever it does is no concern of anyone on uk.d-i-y.
This is a problem you need to take up with the people who run the website. It has nothing to do with us.
No, if you're using the part of google that searches websites then you will have found a copy of your post that's on a website. Remember that google doesn't see every website change instantly though.
But all these websites are not usenet.
A website - something you access with a browser via a URL like http://...
Any number of websites, that's to say webservers (computers) can grab content from usenet servers and re-present it via their own look & feel webpages to anyone.
But the information they are presenting on these sites is not theirs.
So complain to the webmaster of the site you are using.
And, as a matter of interest, where is the thing that you call "UKdiy"?
Usenet is not a single server based protocol. It is a mesh of peer to peer servers using multiple communication technologies some of which existed before the internet was born, to distribute posts to a multiplicity of servers all of whom carry all the posts - eventually, in theory.
That web servers can provide a front end top that mesh is a fact, and they do.
If that side effect is exploited by others and misunderstood by noobs is simply the way it is.
Someone pointed out that I should complain where the problem started...that's exactly what I've done....for all my posts/replies I've used a similar link to this one:
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of you have verified that some of my threads sometimes cannot be found (thanks for bothering)...or can be found at certain times (like someone is switching them on/off at will?)...so I guess something is wrong with Google Groups.
This is a link related to UKDiy:
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far as I know UKdiy existed long before Google Groups (correct me if I'm wrong).
This is a link to this very thread from my PC:
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I don't link to certain threads directly (I just use a link I've used from past I land on GoogleGroups-UKDiy.
exactly what I've done....for all my posts/replies I've used a similar link to this one:
(thanks for bothering)...or can be found at certain times (like someone is switching them on/off at will?)...so I guess something is wrong with Google Groups.
wrong).
Indeed. Google bought dejanews IIRC.
from past I land on GoogleGroups-UKDiy.
You cant really link to a usenet post directly anyway since it doesn't have a unique URL.
then right at the top of that page you did click on:
What is it, and how do I read it or post to it?
yes? And you did then read all the way down to "How do I join in?" and click on the link there to "newsgroup access tips, yes? Correct? You did all that, right, eh?
And then under "newsgroup access tips" you found a succinct summary of all we've been trying to drum into you for the last day and a half, yes? And am I still right, you read all that, yes? It even has instructions for how to configure a couple of usenet clients.
Then you ignored all that and went to google groups anyway.
I think you're swimming against the tide ... most people (there are exceptions) using google groups seem to be either having problems, or causing problems.
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