Second question about Microsoft Software Update Service equivalent in linux
I would like to thank everyone in advance for taking the time to look at my code below. I believe the term for the variable type I'm trying to manipulate is called...
On Sunday 09 April 2006 09:04, Michael Heiming stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:
Sadly enough, I have the impression - and others with me - that most newbies consider Usenet to be part of Google somehow, i.e. that Usenet exists as some kind of forum on Google Groups, and that therefore by definition one must use the broken Google Groups web interface for reading on and posting to Usenet... :-
To the newbies: Usenet is a network of newsservers - look up "NNTP" on Google - on which newsgroups exist, to which people can subscribe in order to exchange ideas and information - sometimes even files, depending on the newsserver.
Usenet is *not* a part of Google Groups. Google does however scan the newsgroups and archives their contents for posterity - with the and has also started offering a (broken) web-based interface for posting to the various newsgroups.
It is however highly recommended that you would use a newsreader application - e.g.Knode,-Pan,-slrn,-GnusorMozilla-Thunderbirdin UNIX systems, orMozilla-Thunderbirdor evenOutlook-Expresson Windows - and connect to a newsserver.
Most ISP's offer NNTP as part of their package, and so this is a much more preferable way to read and post to the newsgroups than the web-based and broken Google Groups interface.
The idea - and goodNetiquette- is also to include relevant quoting in your post, so that people know what you are replying to. Start by quoting the previous poster's entire post and then trim out that which is irrelevant. Put your comments *underneath* each individual paragraph you wish to say something about, *not* at the top of the message.
Usenet is a very busy medium and most of us are subscribed to multiple newsgroups. It would be impossible for us to read up all the way through each thread - or read down through the quoted section dangling underneath your message if you top-post - in order to know what you are talking about, to whom you are replying and to what part exactly of what he-she said that it is you are replying.
The above was of course for the information of all lurking newbies... Spread the word! ;-)
-- With kind regards,
*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)
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