• [OT] Is Eternal September broken today?

    From rhino@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 18:02:25 2025
    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see if there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post, Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at something that had been posted within the past
    24 hours. I've had that problem before and always resolved it by unsubscribing and then resubscribing. But today, that didn't work: after I resubscribed, Thunderbird insisted that there were no messages in rec.arts.tv!

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue but it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and tried to unsubscribe/resubscribe to rec.arts.tv but
    then I wasn't even getting a list of newsgroups!!!

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal Septemeber itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad as I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet service called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to post this. But it just leaves everything on one
    line and keeps scrolling ever further right and I don't know how to stop that behaviour.

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    Rhino

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Mar 25 15:24:31 2025
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:02:25 GMT, rhino
    <[email protected]d> wrote:


    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see if there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post, Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at something that had been posted within the
    past 24 hours. I've had that problem before and always resolved it by unsubscribing and then resubscribing. But today, that didn't work: after I resubscribed, Thunderbird insisted that there were no messages in rec.arts.tv!

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue but it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and tried to unsubscribe/resubscribe to rec.arts.tv but
    then I wasn't even getting a list of newsgroups!!!

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal Septemeber itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad as I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet service called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to post this. But it just leaves everything on one
    line and keeps scrolling ever further right and I don't know how to stop that behaviour.

    No problems here and it looks like Adam isn't having issues either.

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  • From Ian J. Ball@21:1/5 to shawn on Tue Mar 25 12:37:56 2025
    On 3/25/25 12:24 PM, shawn wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:02:25 GMT, rhino
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see if there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post, Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at something that had been posted within the
    past 24 hours. I've had that problem before and always resolved it by unsubscribing and then resubscribing. But today, that didn't work: after I resubscribed, Thunderbird insisted that there were no messages in rec.arts.tv!

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue but it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and tried to unsubscribe/resubscribe to rec.arts.tv but
    then I wasn't even getting a list of newsgroups!!!

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal Septemeber itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad as I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet service called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to post this. But it just leaves everything on one
    line and keeps scrolling ever further right and I don't know how to stop that behaviour.

    No problems here and it looks like Adam isn't having issues either.

    I also am not having problems with ES.

    It sounds to me like a Thunderbird issue - on my end, my Thunderbird
    will "expire" old articles (3+ months?). So it sounds like rhino's
    Thunderbird is glitching.

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  • From rhino@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 19:57:33 2025
    "Ian J. Ball" <[email protected]d> posted:

    On 3/25/25 12:24 PM, shawn wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:02:25 GMT, rhino
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see if there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post, Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at something that had been posted within the
    past 24 hours. I've had that problem before and always resolved it by unsubscribing and then resubscribing. But today, that didn't work: after I resubscribed, Thunderbird insisted that there were no messages in rec.arts.tv!

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue but it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and tried to unsubscribe/resubscribe to rec.arts.tv
    but then I wasn't even getting a list of newsgroups!!!

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal Septemeber itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad as I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet service called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to post this. But it just leaves everything on
    one line and keeps scrolling ever further right and I don't know how to stop that behaviour.

    No problems here and it looks like Adam isn't having issues either.

    I also am not having problems with ES.

    It sounds to me like a Thunderbird issue - on my end, my Thunderbird
    will "expire" old articles (3+ months?). So it sounds like rhino's Thunderbird is glitching.


    Damn! I was afraid of that. I may have shot myself in the foot when I inadvertently deleted that second newsgroup rather than unsubscribing from it. I'll bet that's hosed up Tbird.

    That's really bad. Official Thunderbird support is limited to the opportunity to ask other users if they've seen the problem - they haven't - and, if I'm really lucky, being able to file a bug report that might take years (literally) to get sorted.

    I may be using Newgrouper from here on out....

    I wonder if removing the newsreader and re-adding it would sort things out? Or even reinstalling Tbird from scratch?

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    Rhino

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Ian J. Ball on Tue Mar 25 16:09:14 2025
    On 3/25/2025 3:37 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
    On 3/25/25 12:24 PM, shawn wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:02:25 GMT, rhino
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see
    if there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post,
    Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at
    something that had been posted within the past 24 hours. I've had
    that problem before and always resolved it by unsubscribing and then
    resubscribing. But today, that didn't work: after I resubscribed,
    Thunderbird insisted that there were no messages in rec.arts.tv!

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on
    Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue
    but it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and
    tried to unsubscribe/resubscribe to rec.arts.tv but then I wasn't
    even getting a list of newsgroups!!!

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my
    problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal
    Septemeber itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad
    as I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet
    service called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to
    post this. But it just leaves everything on one line and keeps
    scrolling ever further right and I don't know how to stop that
    behaviour.

    No problems here and it looks like Adam isn't having issues either.

    I also am not having problems with ES.

    It sounds to me like a Thunderbird issue - on my end, my Thunderbird
    will "expire" old articles (3+ months?). So it sounds like rhino's Thunderbird is glitching.

    I Thunderbird and E.S., without issue at present.

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to shawn on Tue Mar 25 13:32:32 2025
    shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:02:25 GMT, rhino
    <[email protected]d> wrote:


    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see if
    there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post,
    Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at
    something that had been posted within the past 24 hours. I've had that
    problem before and always resolved it by unsubscribing and then
    resubscribing. But today, that didn't work: after I resubscribed,
    Thunderbird insisted that there were no messages in rec.arts.tv!

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on
    Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue but
    it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and tried to
    unsubscribe/resubscribe to rec.arts.tv but then I wasn't even getting a
    list of newsgroups!!!

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my
    problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal Septemeber
    itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad as
    I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet service
    called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to post this.
    But it just leaves everything on one line and keeps scrolling ever
    further right and I don't know how to stop that behaviour.

    No problems here and it looks like Adam isn't having issues either.


    I’m not having any problems, but apparently Adam can’t see my posts.

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    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to Rhino on Tue Mar 25 21:25:30 2025
    Rhino wrote:

    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see if there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post, Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at somethin

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue but it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and tried to unsubscr

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal Septemeber itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad as I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet service called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to post this. Bu

    If there is, it's Kerman's fault.

    BTW, is your return key broken?

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    have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Wed Mar 26 09:37:18 2025
    On 2025-03-25 9:25 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
    Rhino wrote:

    When I got up this morning, I looked at rec.arts.tv as usual to see if there were any interesting posts but whenever I clicked on a post, Thunderbird claimed that it was expired, even though I was looking at somethin

    I tried subscribing to another newsgroup and chose one based on Thunderbird so that I could conceivably get some help with my issue but it was empty too. Then I deleted the Thunderbird newsgroup and tried to unsubscr

    I went to the official Mozilla forum for Thunderbird and described my problem there. The only response I got suggested that Eternal Septemeber itself might be having problems.

    Is anyone else having trouble with Eternal September today?

    By the way, let me apologize if the formatting on this post is as bad as I think it might be. I found out there was a web-based Usenet service called Newsgrouper so that's what I'm using as a stopgap to post this. Bu

    If there is, it's Kerman's fault.

    BTW, is your return key broken?

    Nope. Newsgrouper has no provision to set a width for wrapping posts
    when you're writing it (or if it does, I haven't found it yet).

    Fortunately, I have Thunderbird working again which *does* have
    auto-wrap as you can see in this reply.

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    Rhino

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Apr 28 11:53:54 2025
    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:37:18 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Nope. Newsgrouper has no provision to set a width for wrapping posts
    when you're writing it (or if it does, I haven't found it yet).

    Fortunately, I have Thunderbird working again which *does* have
    auto-wrap as you can see in this reply.

    I tried using Thunderbird for Usenet but since I'm at least as
    interested in binaries as text don't use it for anything but e-mail.
    (And as national secretary of a non-profit I >DO< do plenty of mass
    mailings though have talked to my ISP's tech support people to explain
    my situation and keep myself out of their "spammer list")

    (Though am apparently blocked from LinkedIn which is a problem since
    I'm now retired though my LinkedIn profile doesn't say that since I
    can't get into it)

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Mon Apr 28 17:33:33 2025
    On 4/28/2025 11:53 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:37:18 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Nope. Newsgrouper has no provision to set a width for wrapping posts
    when you're writing it (or if it does, I haven't found it yet).

    Fortunately, I have Thunderbird working again which *does* have
    auto-wrap as you can see in this reply.

    I tried using Thunderbird for Usenet but since I'm at least as
    interested in binaries as text don't use it for anything but e-mail.
    (And as national secretary of a non-profit I >DO< do plenty of mass
    mailings though have talked to my ISP's tech support people to explain
    my situation and keep myself out of their "spammer list")

    (Though am apparently blocked from LinkedIn which is a problem since
    I'm now retired though my LinkedIn profile doesn't say that since I
    can't get into it)

    I use Eternal September, just got home from work and I'm not seeing any
    issues.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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