William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote in
news:48e1b098-d52e-41e3-8b99-d8ece306dbd9n@googlegroups.com:

> On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 11:08:48 AM UTC-4, James Nicoll
> wrote:
>> Five Stories About Sending Teens Into Space
>> https://www.tor.com/2022/06/27/five-stories-about-sending-teens-
>> into-space/
>
> Providentially, my lousy vision has provided you with a new
> topic:
>
> "Five stories about sending trees into space"
>

We are Groot!

On 01/07/2022 15.47, William Hyde wrote:
> On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 11:08:48 AM UTC-4, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five Stories About Sending Teens Into Space
>> https://www.tor.com/2022/06/27/five-stories-about-sending-teens-into-space/
>
> Providentially, my lousy vision has provided you with a new topic:
>
> "Five stories about sending trees into space"

Two come to mind:

In _Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons, the Consul lives in a space-dwelling tree.

In _The Integral Trees_ by Larry Niven, people live in space-trees shaped
like integral signs.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Andre Norton did something along
those lines, although the tree would obviously need to be the habitat
of some feline.

--
Michael F. Stemper
This sentence no verb.

On Friday, July 1, 2022 at 5:41:25 PM UTC-4, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> On 01/07/2022 15.47, William Hyde wrote:
> > On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 11:08:48 AM UTC-4, James Nicoll wrote:
> >> Five Stories About Sending Teens Into Space
> >> https://www.tor.com/2022/06/27/five-stories-about-sending-teens-into-space/
> >
> > Providentially, my lousy vision has provided you with a new topic:
> >
> > "Five stories about sending trees into space"
> Two come to mind:
>
> In _Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons, the Consul lives in a space-dwelling tree.
>
> In _The Integral Trees_ by Larry Niven, people live in space-trees shaped
> like integral signs.

Yes, I thought of those. But unfortunately many of the tree stories are by people
James is not a particular fan of. Benford, also.

Aldiss would be an example, but IIRC he has reviewed that.

>
> I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Andre Norton did something along
> those lines, although the tree would obviously need to be the habitat
> of some feline.

He did review fifty Nortons recently, but yes, that's a possibility.

Then there's the unauthorized Tolkein sequel "Ents in Spaaace!". Well, the entwives are obviously not on earth!

William Hyde

In article <1ccc8afa-85d5-47b3-86a3-3fd49994e6b3n@googlegroups.com>,
William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Friday, July 1, 2022 at 5:41:25 PM UTC-4, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>> On 01/07/2022 15.47, William Hyde wrote:
>> > On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 11:08:48 AM UTC-4, James Nicoll wrote:
>> >> Five Stories About Sending Teens Into Space
>> >> https://www.tor.com/2022/06/27/five-stories-about-sending-teens-into-space/
>> >
>> > Providentially, my lousy vision has provided you with a new topic:
>> >
>> > "Five stories about sending trees into space"
>> Two come to mind:
>>
>> In _Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons, the Consul lives in a space-dwelling tree.
>>
>> In _The Integral Trees_ by Larry Niven, people live in space-trees shaped
>> like integral signs.
>
>Yes, I thought of those. But unfortunately many of the tree stories are by people
>James is not a particular fan of. Benford, also.
>
>Aldiss would be an example, but IIRC he has reviewed that.
>>
>> I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Andre Norton did something along
>> those lines, although the tree would obviously need to be the habitat
>> of some feline.
>
>He did review fifty Nortons recently, but yes, that's a possibility.
>
Well, seven years ago.
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On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 9:08:15 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Yup, something is going on at Eternal September.

Yeah... Calweb abruptly dropped shell access; I'd been using eternal-september for Usenet access for a while via trn at my shell account there. I got trn configured on my PC in Linux Subsystem for Windows. But eternal-september rejects my postings. trn's diagnostic for this was less than informative, so I did a manual NNTP transaction via telnet; I get a "441 You are not allowed to post to rec.arts.sf.fandom" response.

Contact form there does not seem to contact anyone. Looks like I'm going to have to find another NNTP server.

On 05/07/2022 23.28, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
> On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 9:08:15 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Yup, something is going on at Eternal September.
>
> Yeah... Calweb abruptly dropped shell access; I'd been using eternal-september for Usenet access for a while via trn at my shell account there. I got trn configured on my PC in Linux Subsystem for Windows. But eternal-september rejects my postings. trn's diagnostic for this was less than informative, so I did a manual NNTP transaction via telnet; I get a "441 You are not allowed to post to rec.arts.sf.fandom" response.
>
> Contact form there does not seem to contact anyone. Looks like I'm going to have to find another NNTP server.

Eternal September is working just fine for me. It might be
part of your setup.

--
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Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding;
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

In article <603d7242-92d5-4d40-aac1-13e61b4bef70n@googlegroups.com>,
Mike Van Pelt <mike.vanpelt@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 9:08:15 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Yup, something is going on at Eternal September.
>
>Yeah... Calweb abruptly dropped shell access; I'd been using
>eternal-september for Usenet access for a while via trn at my shell
>account there. I got trn configured on my PC in Linux Subsystem for
>Windows. But eternal-september rejects my postings. trn's
>diagnostic for this was less than informative, so I did a manual NNTP
>transaction via telnet; I get a "441 You are not allowed to post to
>rec.arts.sf.fandom" response.
>
>Contact form there does not seem to contact anyone. Looks like I'm
>going to have to find another NNTP server.

Someone screwed up big time!
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 21:28:58 -0700 (PDT), Mike Van Pelt
<mike.vanpelt@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 9:08:15 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Yup, something is going on at Eternal September.
>
>Yeah... Calweb abruptly dropped shell access; I'd been using eternal-september for Usenet access for a while via trn at my shell account there. I got trn configured on my PC in Linux Subsystem for Windows. But eternal-september rejects my postings. trn's diagnostic for this was less than informative, so I did a manual NNTP transaction via telnet; I get a "441 You are not allowed to post to rec.arts.sf.fandom" response.
>
>Contact form there does not seem to contact anyone. Looks like I'm going to have to find another NNTP server.

I'm not having any problems here.

Of course, I'm not messing around with Linix tools running under an
obscure subsystem under Windows.

I'm using a username and password with Agent.

And It Just Works.
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development was the disintegration, under Christian
influence, of classical conceptions of the family and
of family right."

On 6/27/2022 9:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 6/27/2022 8:08 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 6/27/2022 6:05 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 6/27/2022 2:09 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 6/27/2022 3:47 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>> On 6/27/2022 12:45 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/27/2022 10:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>>>> Five Stories About Sending Teens Into Space
>>>>>>> https://www.tor.com/2022/06/27/five-stories-about-sending-teens-into-space/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Teens: cheap, plentiful, and notoriously poor at judging risk:
>>>>>>> why _not_
>>>>>>> send them on dangerous missions in space?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How about a story of sending teens back from space to a nuclear
>>>>>> war ravaged Earth ?  They even made a tv show of it.  "The 100" by
>>>>>> Kass Morgan.
>>>>>>    https://www.amazon.com/100-Kass-Morgan/dp/0316234494/
>>>>>>
>>>>> Please post that in the rec.arts.TV group.  I could use the
>>>>> entertainment I'd get from some of the responses from regulars
>>>>> there.  :D
>>>>
>>>> Hey, "The 100" tv show went seven seasons with 100 episodes.
>>>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_(TV_series)
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if the book series was written before or after the tv
>>>> show.  Looks like the first book in the series preceded the tv show.
>>>> You can watch all seven seasons of the tv show on Netflix.
>>>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_(novel_series)
>>>>
>>> The books definitely came before because the show credits included an
>>> "inspired by" credit for them.  But as with most adaptations the show
>>> had little to do with the books beyond the title.  From a report by
>>> one of the regulars in r.a.tv the entire book series covers the first
>>> 24 hours after landing on Earth.  Dat's it.  And apparently was
>>> almost all teen angst soap opera.  :D
>>>
>> Apologies for the double post, software error.
>
> Yup, something is going on at Eternal September.
>
> Lynn

Ray replaced at least two of the E-S servers (there are three or four
E-S servers) at a new location about two weeks ago. The new DNS took a
long time to update for some of the ISPs, over a week for AT&T. One guy
was continuously complaining at
news://news.eternal-september.org/eternal-september.support and
eventually found that he had hardwired the E-S reader and database IPv4
addresses into his localhosts file. Once he removed those, his problems
went away.

Lynn