[Beta_Nullo]

David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 10/12/2009 2:31 PM Beta_Nullo spake thus:

Richard Crowley wrote:

Beta_Nullo wrote:

Apparently there are lots of different lists circulating about Usenet
as to which newsgroup is valid, and which one isn't.

I've been on Usenet for ~12 years and I see no evidence of
that whatsoever. What makes you think that?

Does your newsserver recognize rec.audio.tech or not?

I don't know of any that do NOT carry r.a.t

Thanks, that is reassuring.

I guess I'll have to assume it's some kind of a bug in the Sea Monkey
newsreader for it mysteriously omits "rec.audio.tech" no matter how
hard I look for it. (At least as of 5 minutes ago, and all day
Saturday and Sunday.) For what it's worth, the Pineapple newsreader
for the Mac thinks it DOES exist.

What do you expect with a name like "Sea Monkey"?

But I found the name irresistible, so I went and leeched it off a
website associated with Mozilla. It's true, they sort of warned me the
thing was still being tested. I basically visualized a barrel of
monkeys, and nothing is better than a barrel of monkeys. Or sea
monkeys, anyway. And I remembered all those comics from the 1960s where
- if you saved up your money - you could buy a bunch of sea monkeys.
Um, tiny little shrimp critters, I understand.

Obviously, if at least one news client can see it, your news server is
serving it (I'm sure you figured that out).

I usually refrain from jumping to conclusions, but you do seem to have
made your point, and it's a compelling point at that. Now, if only
they would let me alphabetize my newsgroup list...