Hi--

The reason I use Google is because the sysad at my school acted dumb
when I asked about newsgroups, and my 12 year-old *nephew* came to my
rescue with the suggestion of Google.

I could talk to my sysad more convincingly, perhaps, if I knew the
magic words (no, not "please" or "thank you") that would awaken his
memory or at least give him something concrete to track down.

If my sysad persists in his know-nothing-ness, what should *I* know in
order to figure out this issue by myself?

I realize this is a tea group, but talking about how to *access* this
group doesn't seem *too* far off-topic to me. If this has been
discussed in useful detail somewhere else, give me a link to the
archive, and I'll go study the issue there.

Thanks,

james-henry

Thitherflit > writes:

> Hi--
>
> The reason I use Google is because the sysad at my school acted dumb
> when I asked about newsgroups, and my 12 year-old *nephew* came to my
> rescue with the suggestion of Google.
>
> I could talk to my sysad more convincingly, perhaps, if I knew the
> magic words (no, not "please" or "thank you") that would awaken his
> memory or at least give him something concrete to track down.

You might ask him for an NNTP server. With that, you could run a
network news (Usenet) *client* on your own machine.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

On Aug 3, 5:45 am, Thitherflit > wrote:
> Hi--
>
> The reason I use Google is because the sysad at my school acted dumb
> when I asked about newsgroups, and my 12 year-old *nephew* came to my
> rescue with the suggestion of Google.
>
> I could talk to my sysad more convincingly, perhaps, if I knew the
> magic words (no, not "please" or "thank you") that would awaken his
> memory or at least give him something concrete to track down.
>
> If my sysad persists in his know-nothing-ness, what should *I* know in
> order to figure out this issue by myself?
>
> I realize this is a tea group, but talking about how to *access* this
> group doesn't seem *too* far off-topic to me. If this has been
> discussed in useful detail somewhere else, give me a link to the
> archive, and I'll go study the issue there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> james-henry

I use Google because it was free and easy.
I know little or nothing about computer science and really don't have
the time or the inkling to learn. I do respect those of you who
understand those techniques and languages, however.
I do think, though, that those of us who use Google should pressure
Google to step up to the plate and get their group stuff worked out.
Being optimistic and an older activist, I've known consumer pressure
to work.
Shen

On 2007-08-03 07:45:06 -0500, Thitherflit > said:

> I could talk to my sysad more convincingly, perhaps, if I knew the
> magic words (no, not "please" or "thank you") that would awaken his
> memory or at least give him something concrete to track down.

If you just want a better way to access usenet, the best way to get it
is to either pay for a service, or have your ISP give you a good news
service. For those people who understand what that is, usually you just
have to mention that you want access to Usenet or an NNTP server, but
if you are on the internet, and I understand your question correctly,
there are a variety of usenet providers out there from which you can
choose. I like Giganews.
--
Aaron Hsu >

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he
could do only a little." - Edmund Burke