On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:39 AM, jwsmobile <j...@jwsss.com> wrote: > > > On 3/5/2016 7:27 AM, Mouse wrote: > >> What news servers do people round here recommend? >>>> >>> http://www.eternal-september.org/ >>> >> Am I the only one who finds it amusing (in a dark-humour kind of sense) >> that someone asked after news servers and got pointed to a web server? >> > Not really. The instructions for setting up NNTP access are posted > there. Used to be that there were emails sent out, or ftp sites with > something similar to web pages that had such before the web page invention. > > I don't know that TWC my current provider had a News server since I moved > to them. Cox Cable killed off Usenet before 2003. Prior to that it had > been outsourced. > > >> /~\ The ASCII Mouse >> \ / Ribbon Campaign >> X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org >> / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B >> >> >> > This will be useful for my recent "revival of Windows 3.11 networking" PC thing I have been into lately, thanks
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