| Re: Where are the Pictures? |
EasyNews, UseNet made Ea .. |
| Gandalf (gandalf@rivendel.bog) |
2006/08/04 20:47 |
Doc wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:47:08 -0600, "Frankenteaser"
> <Teaser@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>> "Tina" <tinatart69@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1154688833.435454.77090@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
>>> OK, so maybe I'm a bimbo... but I'm reading messages that refer to
>>> pictures, and I don't see the pictures and can't find them! Where are
>>> the pictures!?
>>>
>>> Tina
>> Depends.
>> If you are clicking on an RE: post, that is a text reply
>> Perhaps your ISP or newsreader does not permit binaries in a non-binary
>> group
>> try getting ALT.BINARIES.PICTURES.PANTYHOSE
>
> That won't work for Tina either.
>
> Tina, I can see from your headers that you are accessing the group
> through "google" groups. That won't work to bring you the photos..
>
> This part of the internet is called "usenet" (newsgroups) and it's
> best to access usenet directly rather than indirectly through the
> world wide web. (although there are a couple sites, one I think is
> guba.com, that do a better job of letting people actually see the
> pictures).
>
> Depending on your internet service provider, you may already have
> access to a newsgroup server although they did not tell you about it.
> (They tend to no longer advertise the best hidden secret of the 'net).
> If you can get to your ISP's help file and get the name of their
> newsgroup server, you can configure Outlook to show the newsgroups and
> bring in some (not all) of the pictures.
>
> That could be a first step. But there is specialized software that is
> waaaaaay better than Outlook to do this job that brings you everything
> better. (XNews is free, Agent is one that I use). Also your ISP may
> not have newsgroups or give the crummiest bare bones service
> available. People subscribe to premium news servers and then they use
> that software and everything is totally available then. The biggest
> and most popular news servers are EasyNews and Giganews. Perhaps
> behind those big ones are usenetserver.com and teranews. There are
> maybe 30 others of varying quality and price.
>
> You can google some of these subjects and get up to speed fairly quick
> and discover another dimension of the net. People here could also help
> answer questions or give suggestions if you needed that. - Doc
Gee Doc...
It would've been *way* shorter to simply have said,
"What pictures?"
;-)
-Gandalf
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