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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: OT: News groups
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2000-09-28 19:11:27
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Ahmad Kamal wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
>         I know this is OT, yet, you're the only people that actually
> seem helpful on the net. My problem is that I want to view some
> newsgroups, I get a link say: sci.electronics.design & I just don't
> know what to do with it. Before viewing it with Linux, I thought about
> trying MS OutLook Express (Yucky but easy). I couldn't view it at all.
> All newsgroups software ask me about my ISP news server, I don't have
> one. 

Then find one.

> Is it a must? 

Yes.

> Isn't there any free news servers on the net? 

If you can access the Internet there is this really cool type of site
called "search engines" ;-).  Try
http://www.google.com/search?q=free+and+newsgroups.

> also want to understand how newsgroups are stored one the net? Where
> are they stored? How do I retrieve them?

A few places store them, including deja.com  (http://dejanews.com/), but
that site is terribly overloaded with the most annoying types of
imaginable ads.  

Ciao,

Andreas
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