[CCIL-user] news groups?

[Steve Palmer]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Adam Boyle wrote:

> i'm new to the idea of surfing newsgroups... but i haven't been able to
> access any with my ccil connection!  if anyone knows anything about ccil and
> accessing newsgroups (ie- viewing other's posts and making posts of my own)
> i'd appreciate any information you could give me.

Hello,

For some reason, this just came to my e-mail today, although it was
apparently posted back in January.  According to the group archive,
it was just archived today, so maybe it was queued up in some black
hole somewhere.  Hope you got your answer by now.  Just in case you
didn't, read on...

CCIL used to have a news server of sorts, but it seems to have gone
away.  Instead, you can often get news server access from ISP's for a
monthly fee, I've seen people quote fees from $4.95 to $9.95 / month.

A free option may be news.cis.dfn.de.  I've read that they provide
a free news server for registered users.  Here's a link to their
FAQ list...

http://news.cis.dfn.de/en/faq.html

Good luck.  Oh, and by the way, for searching archives from newsgroups,
you can't beat http://groups.google.com.  You can also post through
google, but it's clunky.

:::::
-Steve-

Steve Palmer
Unix Technologies &
Information Security

http://www.remlaps.com/
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