In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/03/2005
at 12:24 PM, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The 'true' newsgroup is hosted by newsguy.com(it's a
>subscription too).
Huh? Usenet is distributed; there is no "the true newsgroup" and no
"hosted by". The news group bit.listserv.ibm-main is carried on many
news servers, with no hierarchical relationship - they are peers. A
user posts articles to whatever server he is using.
Now, there is a mail-to-news gateway, but that is just another poster
as far as Usenet is concerned, and neither it nor the server it posts
to has any special status.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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