RE: *** ADMIN: Newsgroup access!

Although this is a news group, it is not a part of Usenet, and therefore
is not being carried by ISPs.  It's just a private news server.

Consequently, I don't think you'll have the same spam issues that you have
with the Usenet newsgroups.

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Jim Langston wrote:

> This is either very, very good, or very, very bad.
>
> I *love* the fact I can now set up an account with "No Mail" even if I
> don't' use a newsgroup.  There's been times I wanted to post a question at
> home but haven't had access to my work e-mail, so had to set up my home
> e-mail to the groups to be able to post, then get a ton of messages, and
> have to unsubscribe, etc...  This is great!
>
> My main concern, however, is that newsgroup e-mail farmers may find out
> about this newsgroup and farm my e-mail.  I set up a spam account primarily
> to be used when I post on newsgroups.  If you post an e-mail to a public
> newsgroup you are guaranteed to get tons of spam.  Been there, done that,
> got the lunch meat.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> From: "David Gibbs" <david@midrange.com>
>
> Folks:
>
> I'm pleased to announce that MIDRANGE-L is now available to be read as a
> newsgroup!
>
> Point your favorite newsreader to
> news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange and read to your
> hearts content.
>
> For those of you who do not have a news client that understands the news
> url, the servers name is news.gmane.org, and the newsgroup is
> 'gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange'.
>
> You still need to be subscribed to the list in order to contribute, but you
> can set your subscription options to "No Mail", so you do not receive each
> individual messages.
>
> If MIDRANGE-L is handled well enough, I'll probably start offering other
> lists as newsgroups also.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to contact me privately.
>
> david
> midrange-l owner / administrator / lacky
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