Not quite sure who posted this question in Digest #1533 > On accessing Usenet through Google, might Arachne also be able to > access Usenet through MailAndNews (http://MailAndNews.com , requires > registration)? > Arachne works moderately well with mailandnews, but there are a few gotchas to watch out for. I don't recall now whether I was able to create a new account using Arachne or whether I had to use some other browser. Once the account is created, reading mail with m-and-n requires that you turn cookies OFF. For some stupid reason, if they're on, mailandnews will burden you with some unnecessary javascript, and you'll have to keep editing out less-than signs in order to read any msgs. Writing msgs is more of a problem. If you use the "default template" interface, any msg you write and send will go exactly nowhere, though you won't get any kind of error indication. If you switch to a different interface (text-only is fastest and looks good), then you can send msgs. News in mailandnews is like email--you'll get a "folder" in which each msg can be read and deleted separately. The msgs sit on the mailandnews host and don't take up space on your hard drive, but access can be very slow sometimes. The big advantage of google is you can see a whole thread at one time, and you can reply to any msg within the thread. (To keep the html downloads from getting too big, only 10 msgs are displayed in any one html page, and very long msgs are separated also so you can conveniently read just what you want.) In short, mailandnews does work with Arachne. But given a choice between the two for news, my personal preference is google. ...This message brought to you by: NEIL EDWARD PARKS, Beachwood, Ohio mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.en.com/users/neparks
