Re: Need help to answer a boy genius.

On Mon, 22 May 2006 02:00:17 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine
<ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 21 May 2006 03:56:25 +0300, Aatu Koskensilta wrote:

Charlie-Boo wrote:
Aatu Koskensilta wrote:

Since sci.logic is a USENET newsgroup, its being
unmoderated means that it couldn't even theoretically have "members",

False and unsubstantiated.

It's true and there isn't anything in particular to substantiate.
Unmoderated USENET newsgroups don't have "members" simply because there
is no concept of anyone being a member of a USENET newsgroup to be found
in either the relevant technical specifications or in common usage.

One can, of course, subscribe to a newsgroup. This is about as close to
membership as anyone can get, and it's not all that close since the news
server don't really give a fig as to which groups one subscribes to; they
only care which groups are *read*, using the commands available in RFC977
et al.

Does a news server even _know_ who's subsribed to what group?
My impression was that the notion of subscribing to a group
was not part of the official protocal, it was just something
that client software typically does - the _client_ knows
which groups the user has asked the _client_ to subscribe
to, and then the client uses the list of subsribed groups
to decide which groups to ask the server about.

That's the way I _thought_ it worked.

Also, newsgroups don't have users as such; they have articles. :-) In any
event, a moderated newsgroup has moderators, and I don't think they'd be
called members as such, though they might belong to a mailing list.


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David C. Ullrich
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