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04/05/2005 5:14 PM

abpw web page?

Hello folks,
I usually look at http://www.delorie.com/wood/abpw/
to see the latest stuff posted to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking,
but for the past couple of days I get nothing there, just
the page header and footer. Is it just me, or anyone
else having this problem?

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.


This topic has 13 replies

Mi

"Mike in Arkansas"

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 12:55 PM

GREAT!. Thanks Delorie. I've never been able to access abpw. Great
service to us news reader impaired people. Thanks again. Mike

bR

[email protected] (Robert Bonomi)

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

05/05/2005 12:27 AM

In article <[email protected]>, toller <[email protected]> wrote:
>Is there a way to post to abpw with this website?
>My ISP does not support the newgroup

FYI, from the 'dirty tricks' department:

Find a moribund newsgroup that your ISP _does_ carry.
Then *CROSS-POST*(1) your picture to =that= group _and_ a.b.p.w.

Your ISP will accept the message, and pass it on, because it is posted to a
group that they _do_ carry.

When they do that, they do 'preserve' the "invalid" (on their system),
group(s) for that article.

Thus, when it hits the "wider" world, it makes it to a.b.p.w.


*OR* you _could_ just =ASK= your ISP to add a.b.p.w to the list of newsgroups
they do carry.



(1) "Cross-post" -- to send _one_ copy of an article, with multiple newsgroups
listed on the "Newsgroup:" header line. Anybody reading _any_ of the
newsgroups so listed will see the article. With _most_ newsreaders, though,
once they see that particular article in _one_ newsgroup, they will *NOT*
see it in the others. Newsreader software is 'smart' about this kind of
thing. :)


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rmc

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 4:30 PM

On Wed, 04 May 2005 17:18:20 +0000, ranck wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
>> I usually look at http://www.delorie.com/wood/abpw/
>> to see the latest stuff posted to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking, but
>> for the past couple of days I get nothing there, just the page header
>> and footer. Is it just me, or anyone else having this problem?
>
> Well, apparently it was just me. I just killed and restarted my web
> browser and all is well again. Sorry for the useless post.
>
> Bill Ranck
> Blacksburg, Va.

Thats OK Bill, no problem. But you owe us all a coffee now, I'll take
mine black no sugar, thanks.

tt

"toller"

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 5:44 PM

Is there a way to post to abpw with this website?
My ISP does not support the newgroup

Pg

Patriarch

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 10:22 PM

[email protected] (Robert Bonomi) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

>>Is there a way to post to abpw with this website?
>>My ISP does not support the newgroup
>
> FYI, from the 'dirty tricks' department:
>
> Find a moribund newsgroup that your ISP _does_ carry.
> Then *CROSS-POST*(1) your picture to =that= group _and_ a.b.p.w.

That gets it to the newsgroup. And when I download the headers, I promptly
filter out articles with irrelevant crossposts. a.b.p.w. had that nasty
infestation recently, and filters made it at least somewhat tolerable.

But this is a clever idea. And I'm certain that there is a workaround.

Patriarch

r

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 5:18 PM

[email protected] wrote:
> I usually look at http://www.delorie.com/wood/abpw/
> to see the latest stuff posted to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking,
> but for the past couple of days I get nothing there, just
> the page header and footer. Is it just me, or anyone
> else having this problem?

Well, apparently it was just me. I just killed and restarted
my web browser and all is well again. Sorry for the useless
post.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

Rr

"RonB"

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

05/05/2005 4:13 PM

Opens fine for me. However, I have been seeing very few posts on abpw
during the past few days. Actually one since the 3rd.

Ron

BF

Bruce Farley

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 5:18 PM

I just used your link and it worked fine.
I am on a DSL line iff that matters.
Bruce

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I usually look at http://www.delorie.com/wood/abpw/
> to see the latest stuff posted to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking,
> but for the past couple of days I get nothing there, just
> the page header and footer. Is it just me, or anyone
> else having this problem?
>
> Bill Ranck
> Blacksburg, Va.

PH

Philip Hallstrom

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

05/05/2005 10:18 AM

On 2005-05-04, toller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to post to abpw with this website?
> My ISP does not support the newgroup

How many of you have ISP's that don't support abpw?

It wouldn't be that difficult to set up a site that allowed you to post
pictures along with grabbing what's on abpw now (like what delorie is
doing)...

PH

Philip Hallstrom

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

05/05/2005 3:27 PM

On 2005-05-05, DJ Delorie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> writes:
>> It wouldn't be that difficult to set up a site that allowed you to post
>> pictures
>
> spam, porn, trolls...

Requiring a login, captcha, and lettings users delete[1] posts should
stop most of that...

[1] say if more than 3 people mark it deleted it's deleted.

still if most people carry the group it's a waste of time :)

DD

DJ Delorie

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 1:37 PM


[email protected] writes:
> Well, apparently it was just me. I just killed and restarted
> my web browser and all is well again. Sorry for the useless
> post.

Whew ;-)

DD

DJ Delorie

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

05/05/2005 2:56 PM


Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> writes:
> It wouldn't be that difficult to set up a site that allowed you to post
> pictures

spam, porn, trolls...

DD

DJ Delorie

in reply to [email protected] on 04/05/2005 5:14 PM

04/05/2005 2:16 PM


"toller" <[email protected]> writes:
> Is there a way to post to abpw with this website?

No. All I do is put the photos up for viewing. I don't even store
the text replies there.


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