Re: *** ADMIN: Newsgroup access!

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your ISP is a news server, and it decides what newsgroups IT provides.
Dave's server is another news server, and it provides this newsgroup. You
can hook up to both. IBM also has news servers that are accessible to us.

IE can handle newsgroups.  So can Netscape Messenger.

Personally, I use Forte's Agent. $29 US. There is a free version called, of
all things, Free Agent. <www.forteinc.com> for details. Free Agent is
readily available at ZDNET, TUCOWS, etc., probably.

One benefit of news clients is that you can see the pattern of responses to
postings. This is like the archive at MIDRANGE.COM

At 09:15 PM 4/8/02 -0400, 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.
>
>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.?
>
>Does my ISP have to allow access to specific newsgroups?  (I thought I
>remembered that ISPs decide what newsgroups to allow into their
>network?????)
>
>- Dan Bale
>
>David wrote:
>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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