Questions tagged [newsgroups]
newsgroups are categories on the Usenet network
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What is the current status of Usenet? [closed]
What is the current status of Usenet? What I mean is, do people still use it often? Is it as big as it once was? Basically, what's happened to it in the last two decades or so?
I understand that ...
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delete usenet message [closed]
How to delete message from usenet newsgroup?
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How to access Usenet postings from the earliest days of Usenet? (i.e. the 1980s)
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I've been browsing through comp.lang.forth usenet posts and have found some fascinating gems such as this one here on minimal Forth implementations.
Makes me wonder if it's possible to ...
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who offers free rss feeds of the most recent usenet messages besides google?
Is there any site, besides groups.google, which offers a free rss feed of the most recent messages for any usenet newsgroup?
I mean a service like the following:
http://groups.google.com/group/news....
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How exactly do usenet/nntp/newsgroups work?
I recently found a new way to share files, and I am curious about how exactly this may work.
For example, I gained access to my ISP's nntp server. Is anything I see on my ISP's server stored on their ...
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Login to newsgroup with thunderbird3.0B2 for newsgroup that don't require login
I am trying to login to newsgroup(qt-interest) with thunderbird3.0B2.
The problem is that the newsgroup allows users to read messages without password, but require a password to post a message.
But ...
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How can I participate in NNTP newsgroups over a (HTTP) proxy?
My company restricts access to the outside via an (HTTP) proxy.
My Firefox settings for the proxy are working (proxy address + port as well as "use this proxy server for all protocols"). However, if ...
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Delete old usenet threads
Logged in at Google, I can delete old messages in Google Groups that were written by me. Is there a way to remove a complete thread that was opened by me (years ago) directly on the NNTP server that ...
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Google groups -> newsgroups? [closed]
I' news with the newsgroups, can we use google groups like a newsgroup (for read in thunderbird for example) ?
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Reading Usenet newsgroups on any computer [closed]
Is there any solution, beside Google Groups, to read Usenet groups (and post to them) from any computer? I am looking for something that is closer to a newsreader, with scores, mark-thread-as-read, ...
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command line newsreader? [closed]
Does anyone out there know of a good newsreader that has a command line interface? I really like newsleecher but it is all graphical - I'd prefer to be able to script my queries.
EDIT #1:
As I ...
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Do you know any free newsgroup hosts?
I want to start a news group. I cannot use Yahoo Groups or Google Groups because they both are only open to people who have Yahoo ID or Google Account.
I want the group be open to anyone with any ...
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How to creat a Newsletter sign up option in company website with Typo3? [closed]
I am new to the Typo3 backend environment and am trying to create a newsletter sign up page for our customers. I am not fully sure how to begin within the Typo3 environment. I am trying to install the ...
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How to delete an obsolete RSS feed and newsgroup server in Thunderbird in Windows 10?
Problem exists in both versions 91.3 and 102.7 of Thunderbird running on Windows 10.
I want to delete a discontinued RSS feed and a newsgroup server from Thunderbird. Selecting each and pressing “DEL“ ...
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Outlook Express 6 - How can I transfer newsgroup messages to a new PC
I use Outlook Express 6 to read newsgroups and had the messages from numerous servers downloaded on my PC. The PC became unbootable, but with all files intact, and now I want to migrate the existing ...