Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: > Am I correct in thinking that it is really the same good stuff, > only package differently? And read-only. -- Baloo

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:31:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 10:54, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let yo

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread dvanbalen
Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 10:54, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let you post to > > > news groups after signing up for a free accoun. > > > > Much t

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 10:54, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let you post to > > news groups after signing up for a free accoun. > > Much to the extreme annoyance of the usenet community as a who

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let you post to > news groups after signing up for a free accoun. Much to the extreme annoyance of the usenet community as a whole. Largest source of Usenet trolls in existance (since most are too

Re: Debian newgroup (related new question)

2002-01-25 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: > Is the addressing scheme for news like that for URLs? > Are there really TLDs with such names? ;-) news: news: nntp://:// nntp:// only works if you know everybody in your audiance will be able to use that nntp server, rare. -- Baloo

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread dvanbalen
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Baloo writes: > > People don't just let news servers run free to anyone who connects > > anymore,... > > However, people such as those at run newsservers that > anyone can connect to for $40/year. And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let

Re: Debian newgroup (related new question)

2002-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:51:29PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I recently noticed that I have a news deamon running on my potato. I have > > never really used news. It has seemed to me to be an alternative to mailing > > lists that I didn't

Re: Debian newgroup (related new question)

2002-01-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I recently noticed that I have a news deamon running on my potato. I have > never really used news. It has seemed to me to be an alternative to mailing > lists that I didn't need because mailing lists seemed quite adequate for the > purpose. But

Re: Debian newgroup (related new question)

2002-01-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I recently noticed that I have a news deamon running on my potato. I have never really used news. It has seemed to me to be an alternative to mailing lists that I didn't need because mailing lists seemed quite adequate for the purpose. But with my new email setup (mutt/fetchmail/exim) I am confron

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Baloo writes: > People don't just let news servers run free to anyone who connects > anymore,... However, people such as those at run newsservers that anyone can connect to for $40/year. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 24 Jan 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > Thats true. While Im at home my ISP(@home or comcast now I guess) does > have a news server. But, my current ISP is my school (WVU) and they ave > no newserver, at least not one that they let me know about. Are there > any external news servers that I could

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Scott Henson writes: > Are there any external news servers that I could get access to? Several. I use Newsguy for $40/year. I don't know if they carry the debian group, though (which is just a one-way gateway of this list). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmw

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 01:40, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On 24 Jan 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > > > I heard a few days ago on the list that debian had a newsgroup. I was > > wondering what server this was on. > > Try your ISP. I know I carry it, but thanks to leafnode's lack of > authenticatio

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 24 Jan 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > I heard a few days ago on the list that debian had a newsgroup. I was > wondering what server this was on. Try your ISP. I know I carry it, but thanks to leafnode's lack of authentication, and inn's lack of simplicity emulating leafnode's basic behavior, my

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 24 Jan 2002 00:43:51 -0500 Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I heard a few days ago on the list that debian had a newsgroup. I was > wondering what server this was on. Also on a side note I was wondering > if there was a program within debian thats like a journal where I could > write

Debian newgroup

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Henson
I heard a few days ago on the list that debian had a newsgroup. I was wondering what server this was on. Also on a side note I was wondering if there was a program within debian thats like a journal where I could write stuff down and have it encrypted. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "E