Larry Dighera writes: > Today, usenet still exists albeit a skeleton of its former > incarnation. There are free News Network Transfer Protocol (NNTP) > servers available such as nntp.aioe.org and free-usenet.com, and paid > servers like news.giganews.com. There are free news reading clients > such as Thunderbird and Forte Agent, and the venerable rn for *nix > platforms.
It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer protocol. Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form a network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a VAX with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with broadband can easily handle it now. You don't have to "join Usenet", either. It's simple to set up a private NNTP network with as many servers as you want. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
