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NickFitz replied

18 September 2008, 02:18
Originally posted by Sysman View Post

But can you actually find all the posts you have made? I know I haven't been able to find all of mine ever since they starting tuliping with the interface.

I've found that the best thing is to be able to remember one's old email addresses - by using those to search I can find most things. However, from memory of some past searches, I think some stuff from proprietary groups such as netscape.devs-javascript circa 1997 might have not made it through unscathed

I can still find most stuff from that era on comp.lang.javascript though, sufficiently that I was recently able to thank Eric Lippert of Microsoft for the tremendous help he gave to the group back then, when those of us trying to get things working on IE3 had to struggle with meaningless error messages due to a bug

Last edited by NickFitz; 18 September 2008, 02:23. Reason: Eric Lippert didn't just give some help, he gave the only help we had from MS in those dark days :-)
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Sysman replied

17 September 2008, 22:18
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Indeed. It also has the benefit of having every single NNTP post they were able to find a copy of, dating back to 11 May 1981 - not something any other news server can offer.

FWIW my first public appearance on the Internet is in there, posted to comp.lang.forth in 1993

But can you actually find all the posts you have made? I know I haven't been able to find all of mine ever since they starting tuliping with the interface.
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Sysman replied

17 September 2008, 22:15
Originally posted by Diestl View Post

You can use google groups to post to a news group.

I and many others won't see your posts. Here's why. Blocking Google Groups posters really does eliminate a lot of spam.

Other sites:

sunsite.dk - free, but I believe it's mainly for open source type newsgroups. Details here.

news.individual.net - very reilable, and I've been using it since about 2000 without any problems. 10 Euro a year and well worth it in my opinion. Details here.

Last edited by Sysman; 17 September 2008, 22:19.
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Addanc replied

17 September 2008, 18:49
The following server is free and appears to work :
news.albasani.net
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NickFitz replied

17 September 2008, 00:38
Originally posted by Diestl View Post

You can use google groups to post to a news group.

Indeed. It also has the benefit of having every single NNTP post they were able to find a copy of, dating back to 11 May 1981 - not something any other news server can offer.

FWIW my first public appearance on the Internet is in there, posted to comp.lang.forth in 1993
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Diestl replied

16 September 2008, 21:28
Originally posted by Addanc View Post

Since my new ISP don't support a news server (apparently nobody uses them anymore), can anybody recommend a free news server?

You can use google groups to post to a news group.
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voodooflux replied

16 September 2008, 20:13
I suspect the OP is after a public usenet server. If so it's worth looking at one of the usenet server indexes, such as Maxbaud.
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jkoder replied

16 September 2008, 19:43
Originally posted by Addanc View Post

Since my new ISP don't support a news server (apparently nobody uses them anymore), can anybody recommend a free news server?

If you mean your own news server application then you can use Apache JAMES. It's free, open-source and written in Java.

http://james.apache.org/
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16 September 2008, 19:11
Free News Server

Since my new ISP don't support a news server (apparently nobody uses them anymore), can anybody recommend a free news server?
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