Greetings,

I am familiar with many of the regulars here, and have an unusual
request that will only take a couple of minutes of your time.

Could one of you early risers possibly check this web site, which is
my Blog, for positive access? In other words, can you connect to it?

http://gonelikethewind.blogspot.com/

I have no way to check it personally, other than from a suspect
connection, and have no relatives which to call who could do so.

Thanks, Really!


Greg G.

Greg G. wrote:
Greetings,

I am familiar with many of the regulars here, and have an unusual
request that will only take a couple of minutes of your time.

Could one of you early risers possibly check this web site, which is
my Blog, for positive access? In other words, can you connect to it?

http://gonelikethewind.blogspot.com/

I have no way to check it personally, other than from a suspect
connection, and have no relatives which to call who could do so.

Thanks, Really!


Greg G.

Greg G. wrote:
Greetings,

I am familiar with many of the regulars here, and have an unusual
request that will only take a couple of minutes of your time.

Could one of you early risers possibly check this web site, which is
my Blog, for positive access? In other words, can you connect to it?

http://gonelikethewind.blogspot.com/

I have no way to check it personally, other than from a suspect
connection, and have no relatives which to call who could do so.

Thanks, Really!


Greg G.

It worked fine. But did you really want to know if it worked or were
you directing traffic to your political website to show your personal
beliefs? That site was much too well together by someone to think they
the same individual couldn't find successful access.

Robert

I can connect.

"Greg G." wrote in message
...

Greetings,

I am familiar with many of the regulars here, and have an unusual
request that will only take a couple of minutes of your time.

Could one of you early risers possibly check this web site, which is
my Blog, for positive access? In other words, can you connect to it?

http://gonelikethewind.blogspot.com/

I have no way to check it personally, other than from a suspect
connection, and have no relatives which to call who could do so.

Thanks, Really!


Greg G.



--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

said:

It worked fine. But did you really want to know if it worked or were
you directing traffic

Thanks for checking, Robert. The reason I asked is that when first
began I had readers from around the world with whom I exchanged
comments. Then around June they suddenly disappeared, several of their
sites went down, and I haven't heard a peep since. It's like I became
a leper. ;-) I suppose I'm a hack and the opinions aren't popular.

Since I don't host the blog site, unlike my other sites, I had no idea
what happened and was concerned whether I was actually getting out.
And with folks like Newt screaming about controlling the Internet, and
also being in his territory, one wonders...

That site was much too well together by someone to think they
the same individual couldn't find successful access.

I'm not quite sure what you are saying, but thanks for checking!
On my hosted sites, I can check the server logs for hits, but this is
hosted on blogspot.com, which offers no access to viewer hits.

I'm not soliciting any comments on the content, however, at least not
within this newsgroup. Any discussion concerning "my personal
beliefs" should be reserved for the comments column of the blog.

And yes, in case you forgot, I turn wood. ;-)

No additional response is needed, and I suppose I should have prefaced
the subject line with OT.

Thanks again,


Greg G.

Scratch Ankle said:

I can connect.

Thanks for checking.


Greg G.

said:

It worked fine. But did you really want to know if it worked or were
you directing traffic

Thanks for checking, Robert. The reason I asked is that when first
began I had readers from around the world with whom I exchanged
comments. Then around June they suddenly disappeared, several of their
sites went down, and I haven't heard a peep since. It's like I became
a leper. ;-) I suppose I'm a hack and the opinions aren't popular.

Since I don't host the blog site, unlike my other sites, I had no idea
what happened and was concerned whether I was actually getting out.
And with folks like Newt screaming about controlling the Internet and
also being in his territory, one wonders...

That site was much too well together by someone to think they
the same individual couldn't find successful access.

I'm not quite sure what you are saying, but thanks for checking!
On my hosted sites, I can check the server logs for hits, but this is
hosted on blogspot.com, which offers no access to viewer hits.

I'm not soliciting any comments on the content, however, at least not
within this newsgroup. Any discussion concerning "my personal
beliefs" should be reserved for the comments column of the blog.

And yes, in case you forgot, I turn wood. ;-)

No additional response is needed, and I suppose I should have prefaced
the subject line with OT.

Thanks again,


Greg G.

Greg G.

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 06:16:46 -0500, Greg wrote:

said:

It worked fine. But did you really want to know if it worked or were
you directing traffic

Thanks for checking, Robert. The reason I asked is that when first
began I had readers from around the world with whom I exchanged
comments. Then around June they suddenly disappeared, several of their
sites went down, and I haven't heard a peep since. It's like I became
a leper. ;-) I suppose I'm a hack and the opinions aren't popular.

Didn't look at it, as it was taking too long to load- but if you're
talking about international correspondance, I've heard that there are
a lot of countries that have begun censoring the internet (something
on the order of 40 of them) for their citizens. Might be that some of
those folks you're missing have had their access to western websites
cut- I'm sure there's a list of countries are censored somewhere if
you want to check.

Greg wrote:

Could one of you early risers possibly check this web site, which is
my Blog, for positive access? In other words, can you connect to it?

Yes. But slow load even on DSL. Think about splitting the page. I had to
stop the load to get access - shows loading but no activity - but seemed to
get the whole thing. I've had that happen a couple times, so it could be
some issue on my end. I'm browsing with Opera 9.02.

And yes, in case you forgot, I turn wood. ;-)

No additional response is needed, and I suppose I should have prefaced
the subject line with OT.


I may be a bit sensitive to these things. When I read what was on your
site, I guess it got my ire up as there have been so many attempts at a
stealthily starting a political thread.

The ALWAYS wind up with everyone at each other's throats with name
calling, threats of beatings if they ever see them in person, and
people that normally get along quite well ready to tear each other's
lungs out. In just 2 - 3 posts on these unmoderated groups people are
so far off the topic

This NG has been wonderfully free of that. At the woodworking NG, take
a peek at the longest threads there; it used to be how much they hated
Home Depot, and whether or not Norm was a "woodworker" or a
"craftsman". Now anything to do with any politics gets the most posts,
and by the third or fourth post, it is ugly. So when it gets to a
couple of hundred, you can guess what the tone and content of the posts
will be. The whole group was so confrontational after a while that it
wasn't even safe to post your opinion on your tools.

Now many have quit, and won't come back. Some won't be missed; some
will. And a small spark can easily start a forest fire over there.
And it has been a common technique on NGs and forum across the 'net to
draw attention to one's website and its content by asking innocently of
someone could take a look at it and make sure a couple of the links
work.

This obviously wasn't your intent. I like the peace and quiet here,
the focus on woodturning and related subjects, and the noticeable lack
of righteous political podium banging. Good luck with your site.


Robert

said:

And yes, in case you forgot, I turn wood. ;-)

No additional response is needed, and I suppose I should have prefaced
the subject line with OT.


I may be a bit sensitive to these things. When I read what was on your
site, I guess it got my ire up as there have been so many attempts at a
stealthily starting a political thread.

I understand. I used to be an avid participant in the wreck, and was
drawn into several of these threads - some were irresistible. ;-)
Tried to keep it civil, but I did tell one guy to jump in a lake.
But after 5 years of "participation", the threads became almost
exclusively political, the flame baiting, the name calling, and...
My, how short your memory is. ;-)

I "went away" for that very reason. But that is also why I started
the blog - to vent, albeit in a proper place so that others wouldn't
be annoyed. I have found the current climate annoying enough without
being reminded every 30 minutes. Now it's only every day. ;-)
Funny how accurate I was, however.. (toot-toot)

Anyway, Thanks.
I'll crawl back into my hole now.
Tell SM, CB, LR, LD and others I said "Hi".


Greg G.