Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/21/06 07:25

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:15:16 +1100, dorayme wrote:

> In article
> <pan.2006.01.21.00.47.32.962747@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:01:59 +1100, dorayme wrote:
>>
>> > In article
>> > <pan.2006.01.20.18.44.42.168772@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
>> > Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:41:19 +0000, News wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > If I am reading this newsgroup and want to refresh it, by that I
>> >> > mean get any new postings, is there a way to do this without
>> >> > leaving the site and returning?
>> >>
>> >> What site? What do sites have to do with this?
>> >
>> > OP means whatever he is on when he is reading eg. alt.html postings.
>>
>> That would be his news client. Does that make this a web site?
>>
>>
> He said "site", this is a bit vaguer. And the context showed what he
> wanted. A guy is contacting his newsgroup and getting articles, he is
> reading articles. He is on his computer, reading articles that have come
> down, he is on his newsreader program, and he is
> very-close-to-being-in-contact/has recently been in content with a
> computer that holds the posted articles. It - yes "it", go figure - feels
> like being in a big room where we all come and go, leave messages and hang
> around or not, we talk to each other, except that there are a few time
> delays and stuff. The room is the site.

The "room" in your context (which is not a "room" in the chat context
which other newbs erroneously call everything they see) is a Usenet
newsgroup.

>> I don't know or care how to do that in Outlook Distress.
>
> Gee, you earthlings are strange...

This one isn't. Because you see...(continued)

>> History shows
>> I'm more than happy to help out with Xnews, Pan and slrn, though.
>> That's one reason the first group I do every news run is
>> news.software.readers: I dig good news clients.

(cont'd)...I don't include OE in that group.

> You are a sensible man. I have not doubted it. And very helpful. And
> knowledgeable about fish. Relax. Go fishin' even...

And I will help OP figure out that this is a newsgroup and not a web site
if he responds and seems willing to learn -- that's why I tried to get his
attention in my response to his post.


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