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Newsgroups DescriptionsConfigurationGuidelinesEtiquetteSearch NewsgroupsTeam BNewsgroup STARsDirectoryTipsFAQ'sFeedback
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What and where are these posting guidelines that I've heard about? The Newsgroup Posting Guidelines explain what is and is not acceptable conduct when posting to the Borland public newsgroups. Is there a searchable archive of the Borland newsgroups? Yes, the newsgroup search page has links to several searchable archives of the Newsgroups. I know I posted a message; I saw it in the group yesterday, but today it's gone. Has my message been cancelled? No? Then where did it go? The most likely explanation is that you have your news reader configured to show you only unread messages. When you saw your message yesterday, your news reader marked it read, thus today you do not see the message. Look under the Options menu or the View menu to find how to change which messages are displayed. I post and I post, but I never see any of my messages on the newsgroups. What is going on? You may be posting your messages to a server other than Borland's server which is newsgroups.borland.com. Messages to the newsgroups only actually reach them if posted on Borland's own server. Check http://www.borland.com/newsgroups/ for details on how to access the Borland server. Borland runs these Borland newsgroups on Borland hardware. Many other servers (such as deja.com) mirror what's posted here, and will also show the messages you post to them. However, Borland does not accept those messages for relay to the central Borland newsgroup server. The vast majority of newsgroup users do not see messages posted to mirrored servers, and TeamB members or Borland personnel do not see them. This is why posts to mirrored servers may get no answer, or no satisfactory answer. So, if you are not accessing this newsgroup through the Borland server, consider it read-only. The reason for this policy is that the newsgroups are monitored. Off-topic messages, oversize attachments, spam, etc. are very quickly canceled. This helps the newsgroups maintain a coherence that is not generally achieved on Usenet. Obviously, this pruning of incoming messages can only be done efficiently if they all come into the same place -- the Borland server. Whenever I try to access a particular newsgroup, Netscape crashes. Is there a problem with that group? Most likely it's not the newsgroup itself, but your browser. Try this:  Go into your Netscape directory. Go to Users\(profile name)\News\host-newsgroups.borland.com\. Find the .snm file with the same name as the problem newsgroup. Rename the .snm file. Run your news reader and try to access the group. If this works, you can go back and delete the file you renamed. When I get the messages for a particular newsgroup, Netscape marks them all "read" as they are downloaded. What's wrong? There is a file, the .rc file, that keeps track of which messages you have read in a given newsgroup on a given news server. It sounds like that file has gotten munged and has a "last message read" number that is too high. You'll usually have one .rc file for each news server on which you read newsgroups. The name of the file is usually similar to the name of the news server it tracks. For instance, my .rc file for newsgroups.borland.com, is forums.rc. Opening it I find this line: "borland.public.jbuilder.non-technical: 1-8996". If I set that final number, 8996, to a much higher number, all of the messages that have a message number less than that number will be marked as read everytime I open the newsgroup. If you use Netscape Communicator to read news, you'll find the .rc files under ...\Netscape\Users\(profile name)\News. I tried to post a message and I got a message that said "Posting not allowed." Why can't I post? You are probably trying to post to a "place holder" Newsgroup. The place holder newsgroups exist only to hold the hierarchy for the groups below it, and are not open for posting. Any newsgroup which has a newsgroup or newsgroups below it in the hierarchy is a place holder newsgroup. Posting is only allowed at the "leaves" of the "tree". When I try to connect to the Borland news server, I get an error that says there is no DNS entry for newsgroups.borland.com. Why? It sounds like you may be behind a corporate firewall that has access blocked on port 119, the NNTP port. You will need to talk to your network administrator about opening your firewall on port 119. If you are not behind a firewall, the "no DNS entry" error could indicate a problem with your local DNS. Contact your ISP about this problem. What are those abbreviations/acronyms I keep seeing? Those acronyms are usenet acronyms for commonly used expressions. Here are a few of the more common acronyms:
What are those little punctuation things that I see in some messages? Those little punctuation things are called "smilies" or "emoticons" (short for "emotion icon" I presume.) Emoticons are Usenet's version of non-verbal cues. Here are some commony used smilies:
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