Re: *** ADMIN: Newsgroup access!

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:15 PM 4/8/2002, you wrote:
>O.k., why does replying to your post (which I read in Outlook Express) start
>up Eudora?  Is your post "newsgroup"-aware?  When I tried to reply to this
>in Eudora, it responded that there was a .DLL missing and GPF'd.

Well, if you simply "reply" to a message in OE, it will try and send an
email message.  If you "reply to group", it will post a news message.

One thing that folks should be aware of, the service I'm using is
specifically for gating mailing lists to news groups.  As such, they
require you to authenticate yourself before your post to a newsgroup /
mailing list is accepted.  It's not hard, all you have to do is respond to
a email message they send.  Very similar, in fact, to the way Mailman works
when you subscribe to a new list.

>David, allow me to be the one to embarrass myself here and say that,
>although I've heard of newsgroups for years, I've never experienced one
>before.  What does the newsgroup option have over the same old emails we've
>been living with for years now?  Is there a primer out there about what
>newsgroups are, what software you need to use them, how to use them, etc.?

Try http://www.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup.htm

>Does my ISP have to allow access to specific newsgroups?  (I thought I
>remembered that ISPs decide what newsgroups to allow into their
>network?????)

Not in this case ... the newsgroups are not carried by your ISP, but an
independent service.

david

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