RE: Off topic: Newsgroup access
The email to news interface is reliable IMHO. I'm regularly on sites without a news feed and always just register with the email listing. The only hassle is I have news access back in my office and the two aren't synchornised. The main downer is there is a lag in the email and it doesn't tend to be threaded. re: free news servers, probably but I don't know, like I said I just use the email option. We've got to keep Walt/Mike in work :-))) Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # You are only young once Tel: +44 1436 674729 # but you can be immature Fax: +44 1436 678693 # forever www.wfsoftware.com # -----Original Message----- From: Carlson@WHSmith [mailto:carlson1@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 4:44 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Off topic: Newsgroup access Within the next month or so, my company will be dropping our current ISP for our own mail server. Unfortunately, this probably means that I'll also lose my newsgroup feed as well. Aside from trying to get newsgroup access from our own server, are there any alternatives? I know that the listserv is still up and running, but is it reliable? Any free news servers out there? I'd like to have a solution where I can save the 'messages' to disk for later review, much like I can do currently with Netscape. Just trolling for possibilities . . . . I really need to stay in touch with this group . . . . 8-) TIA! -- John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA #include std_disclaimer.h /* These are my opinions, not my company's opinion */ The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(s) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.
Would www.deja.com work for your situation. Obviously it cannot be relied 100% but it serves the purpose OK for me. Again this is possible if the Net Administrators do not block the site. Deja is free to use. You might need to sign up though. Ram S. In article <8i3b5s$gq9$1@news.xmission.com>, Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> wrote: > > The email to news interface is reliable IMHO. I'm regularly on sites > without a news feed and always just register with the email listing. The > only hassle is I have news access back in my office and the two aren't > synchornised. > > The main downer is there is a lag in the email and it doesn't tend > to be threaded. > > re: free news servers, probably but I don't know, like I said I just use > the email option. We've got to keep Walt/Mike in work :-))) > > Paul Watson # > WF Software Ltd # You are only young once > Tel: +44 1436 674729 # but you can be immature > Fax: +44 1436 678693 # forever > www.wfsoftware.com # > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carlson@WHSmith [mailto:carlson1@bellsouth.net] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 4:44 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Off topic: Newsgroup access > > Within the next month or so, my company will be dropping our current ISP > for our own mail server. Unfortunately, this probably means that I'll > also lose my newsgroup feed as well. Aside from trying to get newsgroup > access from our own server, are there any alternatives? I know that the > listserv is still up and running, but is it reliable? Any free news > servers out there? I'd like to have a solution where I can save the > 'messages' to disk for later review, much like I can do currently with > Netscape. > > Just trolling for possibilities . . . . I really need to stay in touch > with this group . . . . 8-) > > TIA! > > -- > John Carlson > Informix DBA > WHSmith USA > > #include std_disclaimer.h /* These are my opinions, not my company's > opinion */ > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(s) of the > mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. > If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution > or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions > taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be > unlawful. > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.