[PLUG] Sortof solved - was [ Re: Free USENET servers?]

[Richard Owlett]

The Subject could be rewritten as "WOW - Murphy ===== OPTIMIST" !!!!

I remembered that I still had an ancient copy of Debian on this machine.
I booted it and launched its copy of SeaMonkey to access that instance 
of news.eternal-september.org .

The problem post was readable *THERE*.

When my current system tried to load that post earlier today there was 
evidently a glitch on the communication channel.

In any case reading the later posts to thread I doubt the OP actually 
knew what he wanted/needed but an experienced user guessed what was 
going on and solved the OP's problem.

Glad I didn't get involved.
Oh BTW I've not had access to a TTY for a half-century or more ;/

Thanks for trying.

On 1/15/25 8:17 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
> It sounds like a foreground background color problem. Try printing the
> message on a model 33 teletype machine? What are you using for a reader,
> and is there anything you can do to change font color? Or maybe cut and
> paste into a text file.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 06:06 Richard Owlett <rowlett at access.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have been using news.eternal-september.org for a long time with
>> generally good results.
>>
>> Today there was a post with a blank body. I sent a private email to the
>> OP about the problem.
>>
>> An hour later there were two replies quoting portions of the "blank"
>> message.
>>
>> How do I trouble shoot this?
>> Is there a recommended free server I could use as backup?
>>
>> My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE and SeaMonkey 2.53.19 .
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>