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Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups

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Subject: Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups
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by: Robert in CA - Thu, 9 Mar 2023 05:56 UTC

I tried to post this normally but I see from your
post I can't. I already tried twice and it failed. Now
I know why.

So please excuse posting on this thread.

I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7
Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster,
Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender
and Windows firewall.

(2) TB HD
Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
Internal Hard Drive

I also have

I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with
Windows 7 Professional,SP1, with
Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast ,
Windows Defender and Windows firewall.

Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
System type : 64-bit operating system

and (external hard drives)

(8500)

Seagate Desktop HDD ST6000DM001 6TB 128MB
Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
System type : 64-bit operating system

(780)
Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
Internal Hard Drive

This concerns the 8500, I don't really have a
problem per se but I've noticed that recently
when I click on pages or links instead of it
going directly to it I get a circle like its
busy or that it takes an inordinate amount of
time to load.
If I click the link again then it will appear
or if reload the page it will but I never had
to wait before. The 8500 was always fast and I
never had to wait at all.

Also and this could just be with Fox News but
the page jumps by itself to picture in picture
format but if I scroll back up it returns to
full screen. It never did that before either.

I did a HD Tune and also checked my HD for free space.

https://postimg.cc/5YPZxBT6

https://postimg.cc/JHDdM9j2

https://postimg.cc/mPNpL3FB

https://postimg.cc/BtLhLf1h

https://postimg.cc/xXRgD0Wd

Thanks,
Robert

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Subject: Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 09:49:30 -0500
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by: Paul - Thu, 2 Feb 2023 14:49 UTC

On 2/2/2023 8:37 AM, Newyana2 wrote:
> Suddenly neither E-S nor AIOE can find the MS newsgroups.
> I visit microsoft.* regular for VB, vbscript, and the most active
> XP group. Does anyone know the story here? Have they been
> discontinued? Threats from Microsoft or some such? Historicallt
> the MS groups have been among the best because they had
> a long history of use by MVPs and Windows professionals.

Switch to news.mixmin.net:563 . Does not appear
to support port 119.

news.mixmin.net/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

The E-S admin has removed microsoft.* , according to a post
I just read a minute ago.

It wasn't a threat, could have been an abuse issue.

Port 563 uses TLS/SSL and so there are some news agents
which do not support that. You would use STunnel as your
locally hosted interworking agent, in that case.

mesnews ----- 127.0.0.1:119 --------- stunnel ------- news.mixmin.net:563

The Mixmin server uses LetsEncrypt certificates. Which
in theory can be set up to auto-renew every three months.
But occasionally you will not be able to reach Mixmin
until that certificate issue is sorted. Will LetsEncrypt
cause grief for a Windows XP user ? Probably :-/

AIOE will be down for some time, and will likely be
rebuilt from scratch. It's not the newsgroup that is
the issue with AIOE, it's the whole server which is
not functioning right now. What is working on the server
AIOE, is one address answers a ping, and that is likely
the limit of the responsibility of the COLO rental operator.
You get a running CPU, a network connection, 25TB/mo of
network cap and so on. The RAID array on the AIOE server
failed (not "degraded" as would normally happen on
a single disk failure, but "failed" as in "data recovery time").

Paul (Send via mixmin as confirmation it is operational today)

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by: Newyana2 - Sat, 4 Feb 2023 03:57 UTC

"Paul" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote

That seems to work, but it looks like only about half
the posts are there. ?

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by: Paul - Sat, 4 Feb 2023 05:58 UTC

On 2/3/2023 10:57 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
> "Paul" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote
>
> | Switch to news.mixmin.net:563 . Does not appear
> | to support port 119.
> |
> | news.mixmin.net/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
> |
>
> That seems to work, but it looks like only about half
> the posts are there. ?

My test was a dismal flop, as propagation through the
server takes a day or two. It's not really healthy
at the moment.

Paul

Staff meeting in the conference room in %d minutes.

computers / microsoft.public.windowsxp.general / Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups

Subject	Author
OT - Microsoft newsgroups	Paul
OT - Microsoft newsgroups	Robert in CA
OT - Microsoft newsgroups	Newyana2
OT - Microsoft newsgroups	Paul