Re: Access this ng from browser ?

"Adrian Stott" <adrian@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Get him started in the right direction!

The OP specifically asked how to access the newsgroup via a web browser.
Pointing out that he could just as well use OE or somesuch isn't as helpful
as you might think.

For instance, not all providers offer a news server. If this is the case,
you're new user(s) has got OE, but nowhere to point it.

Then someone who 'knows better', helpfully points out that there exist free
text-only news servers. All the new user nees to know is the name of the
news server and the NNTP port number that the server uses - and that's
provided the server doesn't want him to log on, never mind if it needs
secure password authentication.

Then the new user posts to a newsgroup asking how he can make OE do
something that it wasn't expected to do. Someone who 'knows better' claims
that OE is an awful newsreader and that the new user should really be using
Forte. What's more, someone else who also 'knows better' points out that the
new user should in fact be using Linux / BSD / Mac OS X or whatever.

So, faced with the question that the OP asked, I'd prefer to just answer it.
;o)


PS I tried Google Groups for a while, and found it to be awful.

Depending upon what I'm trying to achieve and the physical platform I'm
working on, I regularly use several *real* newsreaders. As far as I'm
concerned, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

However, I do indeed also use google's groups which I have been using since
they were Deja News many years ago. I find it rather easy to use. I can do
things with google that I can't do with any *real* newsreader - at least any
with which I am familiar.

If you don't beleive this, consider the following:

In the last 10 years, exactly how many newsgroups have recieved messages
containing the phrase "To a child with a hammer everything looks like a
nail" ?

If you wish to know the answer and lack the time to find it using OE, take a
look here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2cr3rx
;o)

/MikeB


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