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As VanguardLH has said, it's certainly on eternal-september and at least
one other. Which newsserver are you using? (Is it the one provided by
your ISP? I can't tell who that would be as you've munged both your
From: and Reply-To:, but I'm guessing it might be in .nl land.) Most
usenet clients (I see you're using Windows Mail, I don't know if that
one does) allow you to use more than one news server, so you don't have
to abandon the one you're on. (I'd recommend E-S over aioe [?] - it
takes a _tiny_ bit more setting up [trivial though], but posts are less
likely to get blocked.)
Thanks, I did a reload which by the way took a loooong time. But still
no "alt.windows7.general" appearing.
It is worth getting that 'group - the folk there are friendly, and it's
not high-traffic: I'd say between 0.5 and 4 × the level here, in fact.
BTW, there seem to be loads of senseless groups nowadays of which many
are abandoned. Afraid nntp is'nt what it used to be :-(
It sure isn't )-:. Partly because newcomers like (or are assumed to
like) web-based graphical everything, and probably mainly because the
providers of same don't mention that there's an alternative. As for the
abandoned 'groups, when you did the "reload", was there any setting for
"current" 'groups? Not knowing your present server (nor anything about
Windows Mail), I don't know if you have an option to only list 'groups
currently active, or are stuck with a list that includes all 'groups
(including silly ones) ever created.
Anyway I'm getting on quite nicely installing Windows 7 on my old gear.
I even succeeded installing a printerdriver for parallel printer HP
deskjet 720C. At first this was hard to find and some "guru's" told me
there was no chance for my antique printer. I searched the HP web site
I was amused to - some years ago, but still under XP - find that it had
a driver for an old impact ("dot matrix") printer (in that case a Star).
The test page that appeared was actually pretty good! I haven't looked
to see if 7 still supports, e. g., EPSON LX-80; I _think_ it does.
but they didn't have the driver for downloading. Then I tried the
Windows option for searching the driver on internet. Again this took a
long time, but finally it found and installed the driver! Printing
That's interesting, that it took a long time but eventually succeeded. I
wonder where it looks!
works fine now and I can share the printer with my Vista notebook.
Installing and configurating the system takes loads of time all
together so I make intermediate images of the drive with Macrium
Reflect. I think I'll be ready before april 8.
Provided you're well-AVd and firewalled, I think the consensus - though,
in truth, nobody really knows though they'll claim otherwise - is that
it won't be catastrophic if you're not.3
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