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On Tuesday 07 September 2010 10:47:49 Al wrote: |
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> > I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news |
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> > server these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having |
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> > to pay for access when email works well enough. |
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> You don't have to pay for access. Everybody can can run his own server |
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> for his own groups. It's the same like running a mailinglist or |
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> running an apache. |
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> Al |
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But then you need to configure your news-reader to grab the groups from all the |
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different news-servers that are spread around the internet. |
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How is that making things easier then a mailing list? |
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Another reason why news-groups are not very usefull is that most news-servers |
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(at least when I last used them) won't keep all the messages. |
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I have this list (among others) archived on an IMAP-server for quick |
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searching. |
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