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From: Poutnik on 15 May 2010 05:42
In article <OU84nVF8KHA.1436(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>,
Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org says...
>
> For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups, and
> not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:
>
> https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>
> This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on, and it
> does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It works
> with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.

I confirm it is working with latest versions of MicroPlanet Gravity
with 2 objections:

1) Subject is decoded correctly, but From field is not ,
even if they seem to be encoded by the same way
- contacted Gravity developer

2) There is problem with readers like Gravity
taht are not processing html content.

There should be bridge possibility to filter html tags.


--
Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.
From: Ron Rosenfeld on 15 May 2010 08:41
On Mon, 10 May 2010 08:28:12 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:

>For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups, and
>not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:
>
>https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>
>This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on, and it
>does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It works
>with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.

Charlie,

I have been trying to use NNTP Bridge for a week or so now. I find it
extraordinarily slow, with frequent messages popping up indicating the server
has unexpectedly closed my connection, at which point my newsreader waits 60
sec and then tries again.

I am using Forte Agent (4.2) and Agent is listed as being compatible.

I have tried selecting to NOT download message bodies along with the headers to
no avail.

Any suggestions?

NNTP Bridge Version 1.1.0.0

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz
Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Page File Space 8.00 GB

Thanks,
Ron
--ron
From: Jeff Gaines on 15 May 2010 09:24
On 15/05/2010 in message <iv4tu5dciuc1nesr9l1p3l2g8j0ajlduvr(a)4ax.com> Ron
Rosenfeld wrote:

>I have been trying to use NNTP Bridge for a week or so now. I find it
>extraordinarily slow, with frequent messages popping up indicating the
>server
>has unexpectedly closed my connection, at which point my newsreader waits
>60
>sec and then tries again.

I have installed v1.1, it took ages to down-load the groups list.
I don't know how fast/slow it is because the names in the group list don't
seem to bear any relationship to the Usenet names...

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them?
(President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the
telephone)
From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 15 May 2010 09:33
Initial speed is slow, but after that first hit it seems adequate. I know
several heavy users of Agent who are using it (but with the latest version
of Agent - 6.0.) I've been trying it out myself and finally think I'm
getting the hang of it.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Ron Rosenfeld" <ronrosenfeld(a)nospam.org> wrote in message
news:iv4tu5dciuc1nesr9l1p3l2g8j0ajlduvr(a)4ax.com...
> On Mon, 10 May 2010 08:28:12 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
> <Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:
>
>>For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups,
>>and
>>not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:
>>
>>https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>>
>>This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on, and it
>>does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It works
>>with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.
>
> Charlie,
>
> I have been trying to use NNTP Bridge for a week or so now. I find it
> extraordinarily slow, with frequent messages popping up indicating the
> server
> has unexpectedly closed my connection, at which point my newsreader waits
> 60
> sec and then tries again.
>
> I am using Forte Agent (4.2) and Agent is listed as being compatible.
>
> I have tried selecting to NOT download message bodies along with the
> headers to
> no avail.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> NNTP Bridge Version 1.1.0.0
>
> OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
> Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
> System Type x64-based PC
> Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz
> Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
> Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
> Page File Space 8.00 GB
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
> --ron

From: Ron Rosenfeld on 15 May 2010 12:13
On Sat, 15 May 2010 06:33:33 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:

>Initial speed is slow, but after that first hit it seems adequate. I know
>several heavy users of Agent who are using it (but with the latest version
>of Agent - 6.0.) I've been trying it out myself and finally think I'm
>getting the hang of it.
>
>--
>Charlie.
>http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel
>

Well, my subsequent downloads have continued to be exceedingly slow; as in
hours to download 4-5 groups with not much activity in any of them.

<sigh>
--ron
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