bkaras said:
8:04 AM 3/2/2007
According to the technical support people in Adelphia/Comcast Customer
Service, that ISP does not offer newsgroups.
That's becoming more common for liabilty issues (which often really means
they don't want to be caught carrying child porn). Many ISPs will claim
that it's because newsgroups have been superceded by blogs or forums like
the one a link was given for.
Don't ask me how I can access this newsgroup if my ISP does not offer
newsgroups.
You can access it because this news server is maintained by Microsoft, not
your ISP.
There is nothing technically preventing you from connecting to other news
servers. You just need to know where they are and perhaps have logins.
Therefore, I cannot access the newsgroup that you suggested.
Sure you can, not least because that link doesn't go to a newsgroup.
For non-binary newsgroups, just use either Google Groups or find any of many
free news servers - though with those you often can't post. If you need
news servers, subscribe to one, like Supernews, Giganews, etc. Costs are
moderate.
But in any case, this link doesn't lead to a news server. It's a website
laid out as a forum.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4
Please supply the answer since I cannot access any newsgroups (or at least
non-Microsoft newsgroups).
Again, you can. You just have to set up connection to the server. But
since the link doesn't go to a newsgroup server, it's kind of a moot point.
HTH
-pk
