Re: International Conference on the Phaistos Disk

In article
<6d616727-79ea-4a56-b9de-7d8818eb5d87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 10, 3:05 am, "Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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If your ISP (Internet Services Provider) offers NNTP service

How would I know whether it does so? When I switched to DSL two years
ago, I asked the servicepeople about accessing newsgroups and they had
no idea what I was talking about. (yahoo thinks that yahoo groups are
all one needs.)

Who's your ISP? -- someone else here may have an account with them or
know about their services. Did you get any kind of manual or reference
card with connection instructions and whatnot when you signed up?
That'll usually provide a URL for the news server, somewhere near the
e-mail configuration instructions.

You could try directing a news client (many e-mail programs have at
least the basic functions, so you may already have one installed without
knowing it) to a URL based on the ones you've been given for e-mail, and
see if it can log on. For example if the e-mail servers are
<mail.yourisp.com> and <smtp.yourisp.com>, try entering
<news.yourisp.com> in the appropriate setup dialog. If asked for
authentication, try the user-name and password you have for your e-mail
account.

Note that some ISPs have recently withdrawn NNTP services; mine, Telus,
dropped only the "binary" newsgroups, in April, but I gather at least
one major American service has abandoned Usenet altogether within the
past few weeks. If you can't get on through your own ISP, there are a
number of alternatives out there, a few of them free -- especially if
all you want access to is discussion groups like this one, i.e. with
minimal to no downloading of image files and the like.

--
Odysseus
.

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