Jay Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
There was no confirmation that I was aware of. I don't think you
understood what I wrote.
> Just as I thought, the secnews server
> that hosts netscape.public.*.* does a "usenet" FEED !!!
What do you mean by a feed?
It feeds those who use it. Others can use their own Usenet server.
Like I wrote, the secnews server doesn't appear to have a critical
role in the netscape.public.* groups.
Not that it matters.
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