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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jerome H.
Fine
Sent: 06 March 2016 14:27
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Subject: Re: Usenet News Servers
>On Saturday, March 5th, 2016 at 12:53:22 +0000, Robert Jarratt wrote:
My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts.
What news servers do people round here recommend?
I have a question about access to newsgroups. Which currently available
browser is able to access a newsgroups server? Currently, I am using
Netscape 7.2 under Windows 98SE. If I upgrade to Windows 10, I probably
won't find anything from Microsoft which will support reasonable access to
newsgroups. Is there a link to a site which has an application that
supports
access to newsgroups in a manner similar to how Netscape 7.2 provides
access. BEST would be a browser that also supports access to e-mail in
the
same manner as Netscape 7.2 and which also allows me to copy all of the
archived 100,000 e-mails and posts which I have acquired over the last 15
years. It is only about 300 MB, so the size is not a factor.
I know someone will probably recall the same question a while ago, but the
answer given then was not sufficient to make the switch. At least a link
to
the site which has the files to be downloaded would be needed since just
the name of the application does not seem to help me.
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When I registered 8 years ago, I received the following reply copied
below.
There is no charge for the service. I have found that about 99% of the
posts
which appear at eternal-september also appear at sunsite. Mainly, I use
sunsite to check that I am receiving all the posts which have been made to
other servers in addition to having a second source just in case one of
the
servers has crashed or disappears.
The e-mail to sign up was sent to:
news-sig...@sunsite.dk
The other e-mail address that I used to inquire about an acceptable
newsgroup which was not yet carried (alt.sys.pdp11 - but is now) was:
st...@sunsite.dk
The information should be sufficient to inquire and register.
Note that retention is short for some newsgroups, probably only a few days
while for others the retention can be over a year. So checking the posts
on
at least a daily basis is recommended until you determine the retention
period.
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Dear "e-mail address"
You have been registered at the dotsrc.org usenet server.
To be able to read and post articles, you will have to tell your news
client,
that it must perform authentication.
If you forget your username/password, then just register again.
There is no need to remove your registration - your registration will be
removed when it has not been used for 3 months.
More information can be found at:
http://dotsrc.org/usenet/
Your username is: "e-mail address"
Your password is: "six character password"
Your newsserver is: news.sunsite.dk
IMPORTANT: October 15th 2005 a new access policy was introduced, in order
to make the main focus of the usenet service consistent with our remaining
policy and focus. For further info please see
http://dotsrc.org/usenet/accesschange/
Please remark, that the username and password is for your personal usage
only!
Upon any abuse, your account will be terminated immediately.
Best regards,
Dotsrc.org News Administrator
st...@dotsrc.org
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