Usenet help
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Moleculor
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Depends on what you're intending to use it for.
If you're looking to use it long-term, contact your ISP. Most of the major ones (people like Verizon, Cox Cable, Earthlink, 'n such) offer access through news servers, which you can access with any usenet client. (Just find a client you like and download/install it. I use XNews, but have also used Outlook Express in the past.)
If you're looking to use it for maybe one or two posts and that's it, you probably should just try through Google.
If you're looking to use it long-term, contact your ISP. Most of the major ones (people like Verizon, Cox Cable, Earthlink, 'n such) offer access through news servers, which you can access with any usenet client. (Just find a client you like and download/install it. I use XNews, but have also used Outlook Express in the past.)
If you're looking to use it for maybe one or two posts and that's it, you probably should just try through Google.
HornyHenry
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I second what Molecular said
I get some good stories and pics from there sometimes.
I have used Outlook Express, and now use XNEWS, because it decompresses that new compression format, yENC, which others don't.
You only need to know what server to connect to, which is usually NNTP, Network News Transfer Protocol. So, if you were on Earthlink, for example, it might be nntp.earthlink.net or something similar.
Xnews put everything on my desktop, which was annoying, and moving it into folders created some problems. I hope he's fixed that. The guy who wrote it DID answer a couple of my questions in emails which I thought was cool for a free program. It does seem to assume that you already KNOW all the terminology about news groups, which I don't! But it works well enough for me.
I get some good stories and pics from there sometimes.
I have used Outlook Express, and now use XNEWS, because it decompresses that new compression format, yENC, which others don't.
You only need to know what server to connect to, which is usually NNTP, Network News Transfer Protocol. So, if you were on Earthlink, for example, it might be nntp.earthlink.net or something similar.
Xnews put everything on my desktop, which was annoying, and moving it into folders created some problems. I hope he's fixed that. The guy who wrote it DID answer a couple of my questions in emails which I thought was cool for a free program. It does seem to assume that you already KNOW all the terminology about news groups, which I don't! But it works well enough for me.
