Re: Newsgroups

Moz Champion wrote:
> Jamie wrote:
> 
>> I am pretty new to newsgroups and was wondering where I can find more 
>> groups. I used to use Agent on my friends computer but don't know 
>> where to find a group list like that on Mac
> 
> 
> You start usually with a news server provided by your ISP
> Depending upon the ISP that may be anywhere from 100 to 25000 newsgroups
> 
> There are also pay news servers (such as giganews) that may be available 
> to you
> As well as specialized news servers like the one from Netscape (that 
> this group is on actually)
> 
> snews://secnews.netscape.com
> note: access to secnews requires an SSL capable newsreader such as 
> Netscape (any) Mozilla suite or Thunderbird or even (ugh) Outlook
> contains several public and non-public groups for macintosh users
> 
> Macintosh specific groups
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.macintosh      (for Communicator 
> (4x) or Navigator (3x) problems)
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.macintosh  (for Netscape 
> 6 problems [moribund])
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape7.macintosh (for Netscape 
> 7 problems)
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.mac  (For Mozilla 
> (suite) problems)
> 
> General groups (non platform specific)
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.firebird  (for Firefox 
> problems [all platforms])
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla thunderbird (for 
> Thunderbird problems [all platforms])
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.general (for General 
> discussion of Mozilla products and problems)
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.test.multimedia (for HTML users in 
> email and news [all platforms])
> 
> Macintosh specific groups within the mozilla developers hierarchy (so 
> termed public)
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.mac
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.macosx
> 
> Note: secnews also contains windows specific groups, linux specific 
> groups in addition to the above.
> 
> General Macintosh orientated newsgroups available on usenet (use your 
> ISPs news server to access these)
> alt.fan.mozilla
> alt.netscape
> comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac
> 

Addendum

snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.firefox

has just been added to the server, it will serve in PLACE of the now 
moribund netscape.mozilla.firebird  group


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