Subject: Newsgroups

From: "Dinesh R. Thakkar" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 13:42:54 +0530 (GMT+5:30)

Hello eveyone,
I am having great difficulty in access newsgroups. Does anyone know of a 
news server which I can use? The ISP does not provide me with newsgroups 
access.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much, Dinesh.

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From: [email-masked] (Vikas Agnihotri)
Date: 10 Dec 1996 01:32:17 GMT

On 7 Dec 1996 00:14:02 -0800, Dinesh R. Thakkar <[email-masked]> wrote:
[<-->] Hello eveyone,
[<-->] I am having great difficulty in access newsgroups. Does anyone know of a 
[<-->] news server which I can use? The ISP does not provide me with newsgroups 
[<-->] access.
[<-->] 
[<-->] Any help will be greatly appreciated.
[<-->] 
[<-->] Thank you very much, Dinesh.

 You can access a Public NNTP server (www.yahoo.com, search for 
public usenet) _ONLY_ if you are directly connected
to that NNTP server i.e. if you can do a 
 telnet NNTP_SERVER 119 

Since you are coming thru a ISP, I doubt you can do this. But, if you
can, I too would like to do the exaclt same thing. I am behind
a security firewall and would like to access a public NNTP server.
Please forward any direct emails you get on this to me. Thanks.

--Vikas