Theo

As the title says!

Dan Holdsworth

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:30:19 GMT, Theo
<theodore.twyler@ntlworld.com>
was popularly supposed to have said:

> As the title says!

And who are you to ask this? The group presumably isn't costing you
anything to maintain; if it is and you're a news admin, then you should
already know how to drop a group.

If not, might I suggest a good textbook?

Otherwise, be silent. There is activity here, just not very much (and a
striking parallel might be drawn between that and your brain, were I
feeling in the mood to offend you [1]).


[1] Which I'm not, so I'll not be drawing such parallels.

--
Dan Holdsworth PhD dan1701usenet@ntlworld.com
By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java
do thoughts acquire speed, hands acquire shaking, the shaking
becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion

RedHeat

Rather than close the group down, I would be more interested to find out WHY
folks are not posting here any more. My own thought is that the spam posts
have p****d everyone off.

If there were suficient response I would be prepared to set up a forum (free
to members) on my paid server (so no annoying adverts) However to do this
for two or three people would be a wate of time and effort, so if anyone is
interested post your reply here and if there is sufficient interest I will
set it up.

RedHeat

RedHeat

Good reply Jesper. I would love to know where the £600 cost to host a domain
came from. I rent server space from a company in the states and have a
number of forums some with membership approaching 1,000 members (each forum
has its own domain name) - total cost 10$ per month and there is still be
enough bandwidth spare to run a detecting forum!

I will wait for other possible replies before making any decision. If there
is a demand I can have a forum up and running within an hour. But whatever
the outcome best of luck with your forum!

Best wishes

RedHeat

Canopus

RedHeat on 14/06/2006 wrote:

>Rather than close the group down, I would be more interested to find out
>WHY folks are not posting here any more. My own thought is that the spam
>posts have p****d everyone off.

What spam? I don't see any, then I''m accessing through Individual.net
and I suspect they filter a lot of it and if it's in html then it's
definitely blocked by them.

--
Rob

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/

RedHeat

Hi Rob,

If you do not see any spam here then your ISP must indeed be filtering it
out. Without scrolling down I can see a couple of 'get rich quick schemes',
a 'buy dot coms' and a 'Hot teen web shots' posts. It looks from the lack of
replies that there is little/no interest in a free metal detecting forum so
if Jesper gets his forum up and running then I may join that one (the only
doubt is it appears to be a spin off from the Minelab Owners
forum...........and I don't have a minelab)


"Canopus" <BNRAGMAOKKXT@spammotel.com> wrote in message
news:4fl4g6F1jgb00U1@individual.net...
> RedHeat on 14/06/2006 wrote:
>
>>Rather than close the group down, I would be more interested to find out
>>WHY folks are not posting here any more. My own thought is that the spam
>>posts have p****d everyone off.
>
> What spam? I don't see any, then I''m accessing through Individual.net
> and I suspect they filter a lot of it and if it's in html then it's
> definitely blocked by them.
>
> --
> Rob
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/

Canopus

RedHeat on 18/06/2006 wrote:

>Hi Rob,
>
>If you do not see any spam here then your ISP must indeed be filtering it
>out. Without scrolling down I can see a couple of 'get rich quick
>schemes', a 'buy dot coms' and a 'Hot teen web shots' posts. It looks from
>the lack of replies that there is little/no interest in a free metal
>detecting forum so if Jesper gets his forum up and running then I may join
>that one (the only doubt is it appears to be a spin off from the Minelab
>Owners forum...........and I don't have a minelab)

Nope, can't see a single spam. It's not my ISP it's my news server
Individual.net. It's subscription based, 10 Euros a year, doesn't allow
HTML and supposed to have a certain amount of spam filtering. I see the
occasional amateur spam in some groups, angry replies to spam that never
gets through to me in other groups and never had an indication there was
any spam sent to this group. Looks like the 10 Euros a year was worth it
after all.

Oh heck, hope this isn't counted as spam ;-))

--
Rob

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/

tux_powered@nowhere.at-all.net

On 2006-06-18, Canopus <BNRAGMAOKKXT@spammotel.com> wrote:

>
> Nope, can't see a single spam. It's not my ISP it's my news server
> Individual.net. It's subscription based, 10 Euros a year, doesn't allow
> HTML and supposed to have a certain amount of spam filtering. I see the
> occasional amateur spam in some groups, angry replies to spam that never
> gets through to me in other groups and never had an indication there was
> any spam sent to this group. Looks like the 10 Euros a year was worth it
> after all.

Same here, using the same news server at 10 Euros a year and there is no
spam. The news server is also very fast and reliable.

Reg

Dan Holdsworth

On 19 Jun 2006 17:47:00 GMT, tux_powered@nowhere.at-all.net
<tux_powered@nowhere.at-all.net>
was popularly supposed to have said:

> On 2006-06-18, Canopus <BNRAGMAOKKXT@spammotel.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Nope, can't see a single spam. It's not my ISP it's my news server
>> Individual.net. It's subscription based, 10 Euros a year, doesn't allow
>> HTML and supposed to have a certain amount of spam filtering. I see the
>> occasional amateur spam in some groups, angry replies to spam that never
>> gets through to me in other groups and never had an indication there was
>> any spam sent to this group. Looks like the 10 Euros a year was worth it
>> after all.
>
> Same here, using the same news server at 10 Euros a year and there is no
> spam. The news server is also very fast and reliable.

NTL's server is similarly spam-free, although as you can see from my
headers I use leafnode as a local server, to cope with NTL's
occasionally rather crap server.

To be fair, their service is a lot better than it used to be, and
they're otherwise very nice to use.

--
Dan Holdsworth PhD dan1701usenet@ntlworld.com
By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java
do thoughts acquire speed, hands acquire shaking, the shaking
becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion

Jesper

"RedHeat" <redheat@nospam.com> wrote in
news:sVdlg.26698$lQ.12200@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...

> if Jesper gets his forum up and running then I may join that one (the only
> doubt is it appears to be a spin off from the Minelab Owners
> forum...........and I don't have a minelab)

No worries, it will not be Minelab Specific (hey, I've even got a BH Tracker
IV tucked away somewhere!) - I've added sections for most major brands, and
will add more ones on request (once the forum is up and running and I have
some visitors). I don't want to run a minelabowners.com ripoff, even if
minelabowners.com becoming a paysite is what got me going.

ETA is at the moment in a few days, still waiting for logos from my
overworked graphician (who claims to have a "real life" besides computing).

Regards,


/ Jesper

Jim

yep no spam with BT showing on this group recently

"Dan Holdsworth" <dan1701usenet@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:slrne9goq8.gqs.dan1701usenet@spc1-burn1-3-0-cust209.bagu.broadband.ntl.
com...
> On 19 Jun 2006 17:47:00 GMT, tux_powered@nowhere.at-all.net
> <tux_powered@nowhere.at-all.net>
> was popularly supposed to have said:
>
> > On 2006-06-18, Canopus <BNRAGMAOKKXT@spammotel.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Nope, can't see a single spam. It's not my ISP it's my news server
> >> Individual.net. It's subscription based, 10 Euros a year, doesn't
allow
> >> HTML and supposed to have a certain amount of spam filtering. I see
the
> >> occasional amateur spam in some groups, angry replies to spam that
never
> >> gets through to me in other groups and never had an indication there
was
> >> any spam sent to this group. Looks like the 10 Euros a year was worth
it
> >> after all.
> >
> > Same here, using the same news server at 10 Euros a year and there is no
> > spam. The news server is also very fast and reliable.
>
> NTL's server is similarly spam-free, although as you can see from my
> headers I use leafnode as a local server, to cope with NTL's
> occasionally rather crap server.
>
> To be fair, their service is a lot better than it used to be, and
> they're otherwise very nice to use.
>
> --
> Dan Holdsworth PhD dan1701usenet@ntlworld.com
> By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java
> do thoughts acquire speed, hands acquire shaking, the shaking
> becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion

RedHeat

Has your forum idea bit the dust Jesper? I kept going to your potential site
watching the message about when the forum would go live, now all I get is
You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the
credentials you supplied.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page,
please try to contact the Web site by using any e-mail address or phone
number that may be listed on the www.metal-detecting.eu home page.


Shame if you have given up on the idea.

"Jesper" <jesper.spamless@exilregeringen.se> wrote in message
news:7Z5mg.5674$E02.1723@newsb.telia.net...
> "RedHeat" <redheat@nospam.com> wrote in
> news:sVdlg.26698$lQ.12200@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
>
>> if Jesper gets his forum up and running then I may join that one (the
>> only doubt is it appears to be a spin off from the Minelab Owners
>> forum...........and I don't have a minelab)
>
> No worries, it will not be Minelab Specific (hey, I've even got a BH
> Tracker IV tucked away somewhere!) - I've added sections for most major
> brands, and will add more ones on request (once the forum is up and
> running and I have some visitors). I don't want to run a minelabowners.com
> ripoff, even if minelabowners.com becoming a paysite is what got me going.
>
> ETA is at the moment in a few days, still waiting for logos from my
> overworked graphician (who claims to have a "real life" besides
> computing).
>
> Regards,
>
>
> / Jesper
>