Re: deja posting was Re: More Club100 Ghurkas at Eureka

Glenn M Wilson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:31:38 +0200 Frits Kuijlman
> <frits@pds.twi.tudelft.nl> writes:
> >Glenn M Wilson wrote:
> >> I have not been able to post anything there since Deja sold out...
I
> >mean
> >> was bought.
> >Umm..., you don't need Deja to post messages on usenet. As long as
you
> >have
> >an ISP with an nntp server any news reading/posting software should
> >work.
> >I use nn under Linux, but there should be similar software under
> >Windows.
> >Frits
> >--
> >Frits Kuijlman		      F.Kuijlman@{its,cs,twi}.tudelft.nl
> >Delft University of Technology			 The Netherlands
> 
> Frits, sorry but that is 'way over my head' - all I know is that I
used
> to be able to post and read deja.com lists but no longer (stopped
after
> Google bought Deja) and the server hasn't changed at work.  Maybe I
> should try using the local library machines.	Don't have a browser at
> home, just e-mail via Juno.com - when go to new Google webpage for the
> Deja users it has no option to post messages.  And I have looked to
find
> a way to get that but 'no joy' so far.

The "deja.com lists" you refer to are *not* a part of, or owned
by, deja.com. 

Deja provided a web-based front end on the lists, and hosted
archives and advertising. These "lists" are properly called
"Usenet newsgroups" and date back about (at least) ten years
before there was a "browser" to read the "world-wide web" with.
The messages on newsgroups ("news") is passed around using a
protocol called NNTP and is stored on NNTP servers. (You've
probably noticed that the Web uses HTTP, it's at the beginning of
every web address, or URL.)

Ask your ISP at home if they supply a "newsfeed" and what software
they recommend for reading it. If you use MS Windows you should
find that a newsreader ships with it, I think as part of Outlook,
or you could install Netscape Communicator. When configured
properly with the address of your ISP's NNTP server you will be
able to read and post news online or download news and read it
offline at your convenience.

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