Is it something with my setup of has Google borked its groups interface?

If I try to follow a link e.g. to the Google groups interface to uk.d-i-y
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.d-i-y/topics instead of getting the
group I just get a page saying

Google groups

Create and share with groups of people

... blah blah ...

and an invitation to "Sign up to Google Groups with your Google Account"






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John Stumbles

My karma ran over my dogma

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:10:09 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

Still works fine for me (although I never normally access it that way).

Hmmmn, works ok in konq - must be my iceweasel (firefox) setup.

I don't use gg to access uk.d-i-y, just used that as an example, was
actually googling for something that happened to lead to a groups link.

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My karma ran over my dogma

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:31:11 -0800, chrisj.doran wrote:

[*] OK, I know that makes me a sad case, and I should spend 5 minutes
setting up whatever interface everyone says is better and doesn't
class me as a spammer, but if I had 5 minutes to write a sig it would
say: "Eternity does not have enough 5-minute slots for all the 5-
minute jobs you say I should do."

Heh, tell me about it! :-)

For me, using usenet lots, it's 5-minutes[*] well-spent in making it
vastly easier to access the groups
[*] FSVO 'minute'


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Who's *really* behind all these conspiracy theories?

On Nov 28, 1:39 am, John Stumbles wrote:

For me, using usenet lots, it's 5-minutes[*] well-spent in making it
vastly easier to access the groups

For me, it'd take a lot more than 5 minutes to get me access to Usenet
from work[1] via any other way than GG. Indeed it simply couldn't
happen. :-)

Mathew

[1] During my lunch/break of course when personal access is allowed...

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:31:56 -0800, Mathew Newton wrote:

For me, it'd take a lot more than 5 minutes to get me access to Usenet
from work[1]

Ah, you hadn't mentioned the 4-letter word :-/


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I've got nothing against racists - I just wouldn't want my daughter to marry one

Mathew Newton
wibbled on Saturday 28 November 2009 13:31

On Nov 28, 1:39 am, John Stumbles wrote:

For me, using usenet lots, it's 5-minutes[*] well-spent in making it
vastly easier to access the groups

For me, it'd take a lot more than 5 minutes to get me access to Usenet
from work[1] via any other way than GG. Indeed it simply couldn't
happen. :-)


Can you ssh out?

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On 28/11/09 20:20, Tim W wrote:

Mathew
wibbled on Saturday 28 November 2009 13:31

On Nov 28, 1:39 am, John wrote:

For me, it'd take a lot more than 5 minutes to get me access to Usenet
from work[1] via any other way than GG.

Can you ssh out?

I connect from many sites via their web proxy server to my openVPN
server running on port TCP/443 - just looks like https traffic, albeit
rather long lived connections, copes with proxy authentication where needed.

Andy Burns
wibbled on Saturday 28 November 2009 20:30

On 28/11/09 20:20, Tim W wrote:

Mathew
wibbled on Saturday 28 November 2009 13:31

On Nov 28, 1:39 am, John wrote:

For me, it'd take a lot more than 5 minutes to get me access to Usenet
from work[1] via any other way than GG.

Can you ssh out?

I connect from many sites via their web proxy server to my openVPN
server running on port TCP/443 - just looks like https traffic, albeit
rather long lived connections, copes with proxy authentication where
needed.

Then ssh -L is your friend

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On Nov 28, 8:20 pm, Tim W wrote:

For me, it'd take a lot more than 5 minutes to get me access to Usenet
from work[1] via any other way than GG. Indeed it simply couldn't
happen. :-)

Can you ssh out?

Unfortunately not. HTTP(S) is all I can use.

(I also cannot install any software on my client anyway)

Mathew

Mathew Newton
wibbled on Sunday 29 November 2009 10:16

On Nov 28, 8:20 pm, Tim W wrote:

For me, it'd take a lot more than 5 minutes to get me access to Usenet
from work[1] via any other way than GG. Indeed it simply couldn't
happen. :-)

Can you ssh out?

Unfortunately not. HTTP(S) is all I can use.

(I also cannot install any software on my client anyway)

Mathew

I have seen a trick of having a java ssh client applet on a webserver you
own and potentially you could run your ssh server on 443 too.

Might break your company policies though

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