At 11:32 PM 5/21/02 +0700, Kiki wrote the following: >I apologize for my incomplete question >what i mean is a news server that have MAIL BASE system NOT WEB BASE >So, I can directly download them with my OE >It's really a time consuming procedure if I have to click on all those links >on web base news
What you are looking for is a list of "open" or "free news" servers. Usually, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) has its own news (NNTP - Network News Transport Protocol) server which serves its own members (i.e., users that have valid accounts at the ISP). Generally speaking, other users are not allowed to access these news servers. Most of the news servers are like this. There are many lists of news servers which are supposed to be "free". Most of those lists are generated automatically, and in many cases, they list news servers which by mistake of their system administrators provided access to everyone. Shortly after these news-servers are listed as free, the traffic to them dramatically increases and the administrators notice it and find the time to fix the problem (i.e., deny access for people who are not authorized). So you might receive a list of "free NNTP or news-servers", and find that most of them are not free or don't work. It's to be expected. I have spent some time going through the lists of supposedly free news servers, and have never found a single one with any significant number of newsgroups open to the public. The vast majority are closed by the time you attempt to access them, and the occasional one you'll find open will have a very limited area of interest with a very limited number of news groups, such as the newsgroups for a particular city or country. Anyone not having Usenet access would be better off either paying a commercial news provider (like http://www.newsguy.com/) for access, or assuming you have Web access, simply using Google Groups <http://http://groups.google.com/> However, if you are bound and determined, then here are some sites: Public Access Usenet Sites http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Public_Access_Usenet_Sites Sohail's List of Public News Servers (ancient list) http://members.tripod.com/~sok/news.html -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
