Usenet News Servers

[william degnan]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:39 AM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:

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> On 3/5/2016 7:27 AM, Mouse wrote:
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>> What news servers do people round here recommend?
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>>> http://www.eternal-september.org/
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>> Am I the only one who finds it amusing (in a dark-humour kind of sense)
>> that someone asked after news servers and got pointed to a web server?
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> Not really.  The instructions for setting up NNTP access are posted
> there.  Used to be that there were emails sent out, or ftp sites with
> something similar to web pages that had such before the web page invention.
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> I don't know that TWC my current provider had a News server since I moved
> to them.  Cox Cable killed off Usenet before 2003.  Prior to that it had
> been outsourced.
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This will be useful for my recent "revival of Windows 3.11 networking" PC
thing I have been into lately, thanks


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