I had a reply from him on Facebook, and he says he's been havingnon-Google Groups access.
computer problems that will not allow him to connect to Usenet.
Pity. I thought he had solved that problem and had established a
https://rec.puzzles.narkive.com/ <---- Is this site dead?
(this last Slash in URL always seemed stupid)
https://newsgrouper.org/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/rec.puzzles
You can(might) tell him about 2 sites (above)
I had a reply from him on Facebook, and he says he's been having
computer problems that will not allow him to connect to Usenet.
Pity. I thought he had solved that problem and had established a non-Google Groups access.
_______________________
some French speakers insist that
Un dromadaire n'est pas un chameau
and Spanish speakers agree:
Un dromedario no es un camello
-------is this a matter of 2 humps vs. 1 ?
Yes, the number of humps is the most visible difference. The dromedary
has one hump, while the standard camel (the Bactrian camel) has two.
_________________
The French distinguishes between
chaise (a standard dining-style chair) and
fauteuil (an armchair with armrests).
https://rec.puzzles.narkive.com/ <---- Is this site dead?
(this last Slash in URL always seemed stupid)
https://rec.puzzles.narkive.com/ <---- Is this site dead?
(this last Slash in URL always seemed stupid)
https://newsgrouper.org/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/rec.puzzles
I dont know why CsiPh doesn't convert these into live links.
I also still don't know what these 4 buttons are for --> [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]
You can(might) tell him about 2 sites (above)
I had a reply from him on Facebook, and he says he's been having
computer problems that will not allow him to connect to Usenet.
Pity. I thought he had solved that problem and had established a non-Google Groups access.
_______________________
some French speakers insist that
Un dromadaire n'est pas un chameau
and Spanish speakers agree:
Un dromedario no es un camello
-------is this a matter of 2 humps vs. 1 ?
Yes, the number of humps is the most visible difference. The dromedary
has one hump, while the standard camel (the Bactrian camel) has two.
ou<o|#ooY / oioo|#o-+ (d-Un f-ong tu||): Dromedary (one-humped)
ocOo|#ooY / oAio|#o-+ (shu-Ung f-ong tu||): Bactrian (two-humped)
paApaepe|paupa-pe>paC (E+Ctynoo#ooY) (hitokobu-rakuda): Dromedary (one-humped)
paope+pe|paupa-pe>paC (oAio|#oo#ooY) (futakobu-rakuda): Bactrian
(two-humped)
_________________
The French distinguishes between
chaise (a standard dining-style chair) and
fauteuil (an armchair with armrests).
French: Chaussure (shoe) vs. Botte (boot).
German: Schuh (shoe) vs. Stiefel (boot).
Un Baiser (Noun) vs. Baiser (Verb)
Jouir vs. Profiter: Online translation tools often mistranslate
"to enjoy" as jouir. While historically it meant to enjoy, modern French
uses jouir almost exclusively to mean to cum / reach orgasm. If you want
to say you enjoyed a meal or a movie, you must use profiter or aimer.
Faire l'amour vs. Niquer: French separates the emotional act
from the purely physical. Faire l'amour is the standard, polite term for making love.
Niquer or baiser are the harsh, slang equivalents for fucking.
Une fellation vs. Une pipe: French switches terms heavily based
on register. The clinical, medical term for oral sex on a man is une fellation, while the ubiquitous, everyday street slang is une pipe.
On 6/11/26 08:49, HenHanna wrote:
https://newsgrouper.org/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/rec.puzzles
I dont know why CsiPh doesn't convert these into live links.
It's a security thing, the feed is truly plain text.
Promoting anything to outbound links opens the site up as a target for
SEO farming, Phishing, etc. On a modern browser you can highlight the
link text and "Open link" from right click.
Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> posted:
On 6/11/26 08:49, HenHanna wrote:
https://newsgrouper.org/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/alt.usage.english
https://csiph.com/group/rec.puzzles
I dont know why CsiPh doesn't convert these into live links.
It's a security thing, the feed is truly plain text.
Promoting anything to outbound links opens the site up as a target for
SEO farming, Phishing, etc. On a modern browser you can highlight the link text and "Open link" from right click.
In Newsgrouper I do make such links clickable. But to guard against
misuse I require the user to login, at least as a guest, before they
can get past the login page. That keeps out indexers, AI scrapers etc.
HenHanna <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> wrote:
https://rec.puzzles.narkive.com/ <---- Is this site dead?
(this last Slash in URL always seemed stupid)
NOTE: I'm only replying to this inquiry in HenHanna's multiple-issue
article, so I excluded the unrelated newsgroups of alt.usage.english & alt.english.usage in my reply.
Yes, narkive.com is down. I'm not sure for how long, but it looks to be
many days if not for [over] a month.
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/narkive.com.html
"Narkive.com is unavailable.
The website is currently under maintenance..."
https://pulsetic.com/is-website-down/ (enter narkive.com)
"It is down for 100% of the world."
(Checks from 15 worldwide locations. HQ is Reykjavik, Iceland.)
Returns 503 web response code. The server can be reached, but it is not responsive.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/503
web.archive.org reports 10 fails (503 error) out of 10 attempts
yesterday (6/10/26). Back on May 12, they were getting a 429 error
which means the server is overloaded (too busy), or the server is rate limiting (throttling the number of concurrent connections). Note that
even archive.org has become increasingly slow, and sometimes fails to
fetch its own archive data. I was going to walk back through
archive.org's records on narkive.com, but archive.org became
unresponsive (fetch failed), or way to slow for me to bother wasting
time on waiting for it to fetch.
"ping narkive.com" shows no packet loss, but web.archive.org's report
says "503 - No server is available to handle this request." This led me
to believe archive.org is webhosted (they don't run their own server,
but utilize a web hoster). I did a "tracert narkive.com" which ended at
a flyio.net domain. I couldn't ping flyio.net, so either they have it disabled (ICMP ECHO), or they're unresponsive, too. Pulsetic's test
says flyio.net is taking too long to respond. However, I can connect to https://status.flyio.net/history which shows it's really fly.io, and I
can get to fly.io. When I go to https://status.flyio.net/uptime, the
Jun 11 square (today) shows "1 component had an outage". Something
going there, and narkive.com seems hosted there.
| Sysop: | Amessyroom |
|---|---|
| Location: | Fayetteville, NC |
| Users: | 70 |
| Nodes: | 6 (0 / 6) |
| Uptime: | 37:37:26 |
| Calls: | 948 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 1,325 |
| Messages: | 280,462 |