• Re: Usenet newsgroups portals

    From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) to alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems,rec.music.dylan on Mon Feb 24 11:59:47 2025
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    On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:09:52 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    I tried posting on JLA, and ran into that problem in my first post. I
    decided to not use them for another reason - they won't post usenet
    messages with web links (other than to JLA, of course) - but seeing how
    they butcher threads gave me another reason to avoid them.

    JLA Forums has really improved over the past few weeks, definitely a
    welcome addition, as their archives do go back over twenty years.
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  • From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) to alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems,rec.music.dylan on Tue Jun 3 20:04:09 2025
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    Retro Guy wrote:
    Will Dockery wrote:

    Another good Usenet newsgroups portal is JLA Forums:

    http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655

    I just wish they would fix their line wrap in quoting, which sometimes produces broken quote lines, and that they would produce proper
    references headers so that threading worked properly for those using a newsreader.

    Usually, everything shows as a reply to the first article in the thread,
    not the actual article being replied to, so no threading in newsreaders.

    Hello there Retro Guy, long time no see.
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  • From Will Dockery@user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.music.dylan on Fri Jun 27 23:23:11 2025
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    kfries@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (CujoDeSockpuppet) posted:

    Will Dockery wrote:
    CujoDeSockpuppet wrote:
    Will Dockery wrote:

    My first internet post was also to Usenet, back around July 1998.

    The archived post still exists.

    HTH and HAND.

    Usenet is not the internet

    I've been posting on Usenet newsgroups for over twenty years, of course I know that.

    It was an Internet site that was connected to Usenet.

    You're just a sneering troll, basically good for nothing, Cujo.

    I corrected you

    Although, again, no correction was needed.

    ***

    I needed to find this, I knew it would be here.

    My first internet post was to rec. music.dylan (via a web portal) on July 27 1998, writing about David Blue:

    https://expectingrain.com/dok/who/b/bluedavid.html

    ***

    HTH and HAND.
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  • From George J. Dance@George J. Dance@novabbs.org (George J. Dance) to alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems,rec.music.dylan on Sun Jun 29 20:16:29 2025
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    On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 14:13:23 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

    On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:09:52 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    I tried posting on JLA, and ran into that problem in my first post. I
    decided to not use them for another reason - they won't post usenet
    messages with web links (other than to JLA, of course) - but seeing how
    they butcher threads gave me another reason to avoid them.

    There are large gaps in the archives of JLA Forums also, unfortunately.

    I found this out when making a post by post search through various
    years, 2004-2008 and so on, and found many of my threads are missing.

    I think that's due to weblinks in the posts. I'm happy with what they're
    doing for PPB now, but that's something they set up later; I'm sure the
    bulk of PPB posts from the past just aren't there. And other posts with
    links (like the Dancehall) still don't appear.

    If it's any consolation, I think it's worked out worse for Team Monkey.
    They're hunkered down on JLA Forums, where they can't promote their own
    thing; and (since they can and do keep attaching binaries) most of what
    they do post doesn't get out onto usenet.

    I know it's different for you, because you and some nice people (like
    MC) want to revitalize JLA Forums; but for me it's the closest thing
    I've seen to my formula for usenet peace: the Monkey Cage, with them
    staying in and us staying out. That failed with the AYOS threads on
    google - we stayed out, but they wouldn't stay in - and only worked with
    their facebook group until they learned how to get back on here - but
    this time, thanks to JLA's approach to technology, it seems to be
    working better than ever before.
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