On 27/07/10 18:58, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Magnus Therning wrote:
On 26/07/10 22:01, Andrew Coppin wrote:
So I'm told. But it appears that some people believe that NNTP *is* Usenet, which is not the case. I use NNTP almost every single day, but I've never seen Usenet in my life...
So you've only ever been on private NNTP servers then, never browsed through comp.* or sci.*?
I don't even know what they are. (Except that now, by inference, I can guess they're something to do with Usenet.)
Ah, fascinating, there must be an entire world of NNTP servers out there that I've never come across :-) My previous employer had an internal NNTP server running, which was a virtual gold mine of knowledge and insight. It was a largely unknown gold mine at that. Anyway, I know there are several locations where I can host a mailing list (google groups, yahoo etc), are there similar free services that offer free NNTP services?
For example, Microsoft has a private NNTP server for technical support.
Ah, that's very useful to know. /M