On 03/11/2002 3:30 PM, Erik Corry wrote: > Christian Biesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jay Garcia wrote: >>> Also, according to your're explanation, if we list groups from our ISP, >>> then these very same groups should appear. They don't ... Why not? It's >>> "usenet" isn't it? > > Probably your ISP doesn't carry the netscape.* groups. I'm sure > they would if someone complained about it. This is the question > of the netscape.* Usenet name space, and who gets to control it. > If your ISP accepts netscape.* groups and accepts newgroup commands > from Netscape then it works like any other part of 'Usenet'. > >> If you are talking about netscape.public.mozilla.* when you say "the >> very same groups", I can confirm that my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de) >> does have them. >> My ISP's newsserver (news.chello.at) does also have them, I just noticed. > > Yup, and your message passed through the following machines on > the way to me (reverse order): > > news.net.uni-c.dk!howland.erols.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.186.200 > .128!not-for-mail > > Note that netscape.com is not there, so I would have got it even > if netscape.com had been off then net. > > Works with the same technology as the rest of Usenet, even if > it's not part of Usenet according to some big7-plus-alt > definition of Usenet. >
Yes, thanks for the confirmation. Just as I thought, the secnews server that hosts netscape.public.*.* does a "usenet" FEED !!! -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
