From: ahk@chinet.com
Geoff Welsh wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman wrote on 7/24/25 11:23 AM:
>>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,
>No. You are obviously so smart at computer stuff, that you are a
>complete idiot otherwise.
>Far more people check out the newsgroup to see/read "what is going on
>out there in SeaMonkey land" (problems, tests, beta, developer
>comments), than JUST post that they have a problem.
Such people who read and choose never to start discussion mor
participarte in discussion kill newsgroups dead.
>>My "problem" when a
>group seems inactive, is that the group may have died, and I DO NOT KNOW
>if I need to go figure out where it went. I still don't know if it
>died, or moved, by posting a test message in a DIFFERENT GROUP.
Moved?
You have a problem but it cannot be fixed by reconfiguring your
newsreader.
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