On Tuesday 07 September 2010 10:47:49 Al wrote: > > I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news > > server these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having > > to pay for access when email works well enough. > > You don't have to pay for access. Everybody can can run his own server > for his own groups. It's the same like running a mailinglist or > running an apache. > > Al
But then you need to configure your news-reader to grab the groups from all the different news-servers that are spread around the internet. How is that making things easier then a mailing list? Another reason why news-groups are not very usefull is that most news-servers (at least when I last used them) won't keep all the messages. I have this list (among others) archived on an IMAP-server for quick searching. -- Joost
