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 <[email protected]> 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
