On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:28:02 GMT, me@home.org wrote:
>I mentioned in an earlier that I'm a loser who has a lot of time on my
>hands.
>
>I appreciate those who tried to me feel better...thanks. (ha ha)
>But I can live with the truth.
>
>Case in point: It's 4:25a where I am, and even though I'm mighty
>tired, I thought I would see if I could find some empty groups.
>
>It's was more difficult than I anticipated, but mostly because
>Easynews is easily the weakest link here....with the switch to their
>new servers (still in Beta, but soon to be on-line), they've really
>pared down their group list.
>
>Astrawebs isn't all that great either, since they (probably smartly)
>only carry groups that are basically active, but that throws a screw
>into out little project here. But....
>
>I 'did' find two:
>
>ALT.BINARIES.ZOOTOX
>
>(Carried on Easynews, Giganews and Astraweb)
>Giganews is showing some German movie posts but they are from
>September, 2008 and nothing since. Eventually, they will purge and
>disappear. They only show because of Easynew's huge retention.
>
>Not sure about Astraweb, but the group is clean in Easynews.
>
>or
>
>ALT. BINARIES. UFC
>
>Available on the three servers mentioned above, and, although there
>were about 15 XXX Spam posts in February, they stopped over 30 days
>ago, and I will venture to guess, they won't return. Otherwise, empty.
>I'll place a "hi there" text post in both.
>
>People on any other servers: Check to see if you can see either of the
>above, or both.
>
>Goodnight.
Just reporting in that Newscene (my server - yeah, I know - short
retention for binaries) carries both of these groups.
I certainly have no qualms about going to another group, particularly
if it means that more of us get to see the beautiful binaries that -
in paticular - avoice has been posting recently. As always, thanks to
everyone who posts. Speaking for myself, if we move to another group,
I would prefer to move to one in which I don't have to request that
Newscene add the group.
And that's my 2-cents worth.
Chad (NP-b24)
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