RE: [OT] deja posting

>From Juno's website FAQs:
Question 
What is Juno's news server or NNTP address? 
Answer 
Juno does not currently offer newsgroup access through a news or NNTP
server. Instead, we recommend that our members make use of the Web-based
news-reading sites like SuperNews (<http://www.supernews.com>). 

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Brian Bell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: devans@uneb.edu [SMTP:devans@uneb.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:37 PM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: deja posting was Re: More Club100 Ghurkas at Eureka
> 
> 
> ***
> 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.)
> ***
> 
> Heavy on the 'at least'. I'm pretty certain I was reading Usenet by
'86 or
> '87. Reading from a mainframe account(VM) at that. And, didn't look
new to
> me then.
> 
> Is Gopher still an option? ;->=
> 
> However, I already tried explaining this, and it sounds like Glenn's
> service may well not have a news server for him to attach to. Still,
worth
> it to him to ask.
>