From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Geoff Welsh  wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman wrote on 7/22/25 12:08 AM:   
   >>Nuno Silva  wrote:   
   >>>2025-07-22, Paul Bergsagel wrote:   
      
   >>>>This a test to see if the newsgroup server is active   
      
   >>>>I'm sorry if a test post is not allowed.   
      
   >>>It's possibly not ideal, as there are test groups, but there will always   
   >>>be times where the test needs to be sent to a non-test group, if that's   
   >>>part of what you're testing.   
      
   >>Nonsense. Test articles are off topic everywhere except for *.test   
   >>groups for good reason. All the O.P. had to do was ask a question about   
   >>seamonkey. Then the article would have been on topic.   
      
   >I have long been aware how posting "test" is poo-pooed, but still wonder...   
      
   >How does testing a different group test the actual group you are worried   
   >about?  I (too) was wondering if the group had died when nothing posted   
   >for several days.   
      
   Your question is nonsense. If you truly cared about conversation in the   
   newsgroup, then you would have taken it upon yourself to post on topic.   
   Posting a test article cannot possibly revive a dead group.   
      
   >I honestly can't even remember how I set any of this stuff up, so "it"   
   >suddenly breaking is quite worrisome.   
      
   If you wish to post in the Seamonkey newsgroup, then discuss Seamonkey.   
   If it's just a test article, then post in a *.test newsgroup.   
      
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