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History Forum / General / Ancient History / September 2003the fate of rec.arts.books.hist-fiction??
Has this newsgroup disappeared without warning? Maybe I've missed something obvious to everyone else. . . . --CBR > Has this newsgroup disappeared without warning? Maybe I've missed > something obvious to everyone else. . . . I don't know, but the subject of historic fiction is alive and well in r.a.b. The most recent I read in that category is _Libra_ by Don DeLillo. Here, the thesis itself -- that the CIA put Oswald up to killing Kennedy -- is baloney in my opinion, but the interrelationships among lowlife characters in New Orleans, Dallas and Miami is mostly historic. DeLillo gets into their heads nicely. But does he toy with the reader without other sources? That's the sort of topic where r.a.b. sometimes, well maybe once in several months, provides an insight. An insight such as, "The intelligent reader can still be edified by suspending his belief," or something aphoristic like that that makes it possible for anthropologists to read mythology for hours. In soc.history.medieval C. B. Rykken <comment@historical-novels.com> wrote: >Has this newsgroup disappeared without warning? Maybe I've missed >something obvious to everyone else. . . . >--CBR You posted to three, rec.arts.books, soc.history.ancient, and soc.history.medieval. Which is the "this newsgroup" you are speaking about? ---- Paul J. Gans > Has this newsgroup disappeared without warning? Maybe I've missed > something obvious to everyone else. . . . It seems that Google Groups has stopped archiving 100's, if not 1000's, of newsgroups. I don't know if this is a temporary glitch or what. I first noticed this yesterday (Saturday). Perhaps rec.arts.books.hist-fiction is among the casualties. -- Bob Finnan The Hardy Boys Unofficial Home Page http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon New & Out Of Print Books, Books-On-Tape, Videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs For Sale http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon/hbsale.htm To reply: replace nospam with fwdixon ..................................................................... > > Has this newsgroup disappeared without warning? Maybe I've missed > > something obvious to everyone else. . . . [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I first noticed this yesterday (Saturday). > Perhaps rec.arts.books.hist-fiction is among the casualties. One of the groups that I read (soc.history.science) initally got the axe. Today I discovered it was back. If you are lucky, rabh-f will return, but I cannot hold out much hope. This is not the first time groups have been vanished, though it has been long enough I can no longer remember whether Deja News was the last instigator. I have also had some trouble in recent weeks with posting, and sometimes I cannot read threads. I fear Google may be about to crumble under its own weight. Katherine Tredwell > Has this newsgroup disappeared without warning? Maybe I've missed > something obvious to everyone else. . . . > > --CBR I spoke prematurely. On Saturday the archives for rec.arts.books.hist-fiction were available, but new posts were impossible. The same was true for alt.books.reviews. Meanwhile, hist-fiction is back, but not alt.books.reviews. It's a mystery. --CBR [snip] >I spoke prematurely. On Saturday the archives for >rec.arts.books.hist-fiction were available, but new posts were >impossible. The same was true for alt.books.reviews. Meanwhile, >hist-fiction is back, but not alt.books.reviews. It's a mystery. One would presume that if you actually posted using a newsreader, instead of Google, that you could independently access the newsgroup regardless of Google's status. Chris > One would presume that if you actually posted using a newsreader, instead of > Google, that you could independently access the newsgroup regardless of Google's > status. Trouble is that many people don't have access to a newsreader and depend on Google Groups for access to the Usenet. -- Bob Finnan The Hardy Boys Unofficial Home Page http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon New & Out Of Print Books, Books-On-Tape, Videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs For Sale http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon/hbsale.htm To reply: replace nospam with fwdixon ..................................................................... |
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