[OT] [sort of] how to start a newsgroup not Google

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How do you start a news group like the one I'm posting on? I mean not
exactly like this one, it could be on any topic. I don't want it to be a
Google Group either because from what I understand you can't use a
newsreader with Google Groups.

Do ISP's offer this service to open a newsgroup or you have use other
services out there?

Cheers!

Marty

 

[me]

How do you start a news group like the one I'm posting on?
I mean not exactly like this one, it could be on any
topic. I don't want it to be a Google Group either because
from what I understand you can't use a newsreader with
Google Groups.

Do ISP's offer this service to open a newsgroup or you have
use other services out there?

Cheers!

Marty

Marty, google:
start usenet group -google

J

 

[John Fitzsimons]

How do you start a news group like the one I'm posting on?

National ? International ? ISP specific ?

I mean not
exactly like this one, it could be on any topic. I don't want it to be a
Google Group either because from what I understand you can't use a
newsreader with Google Groups.

Do ISP's offer this service to open a newsgroup or you have use other
services out there?

Visit alt.config and read the posts there. Technically, your ISP can
create internal newsgroups that are not seen by anyone outside of
their ISP. 99% of ISPs wouldn't bother though.

Regards, John.

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[Ron May]

How do you start a news group like the one I'm posting on? I mean not
exactly like this one, it could be on any topic. I don't want it to be a
Google Group either because from what I understand you can't use a
newsreader with Google Groups.

Do ISP's offer this service to open a newsgroup or you have use other
services out there?

Cheers!

Marty

This is going to sound like a smartass answer, but it's really true.
If you have to ask how to start a usenet newsgroup, you really
shouldn't attempt it. Having said that, here's one place to start
researching. You need to do a lot of homework before you even THINK
of submitting a proposal.

http://users.rcn.com/kateshort/nnq/ncreate.html

Ron M.

 

[Rob Kelk]

This is going to sound like a smartass answer, but it's really true.
If you have to ask how to start a usenet newsgroup, you really
shouldn't attempt it. Having said that, here's one place to start
researching. You need to do a lot of homework before you even THINK
of submitting a proposal.

http://users.rcn.com/kateshort/nnq/ncreate.html

Also note that everything mentioned on that (or almost any other)
website about the "Big 8" groups is out-of-date - the procedure for
creating those groups is currently being changed. As a side-effect, you
can't get a Big 8 newsgroup creatd right now. (You can still get an alt
group, though...)

 

[miskairal]

Also note that everything mentioned on that (or almost any other)
website about the "Big 8" groups is out-of-date - the procedure for
creating those groups is currently being changed. As a side-effect, you
can't get a Big 8 newsgroup creatd right now. (You can still get an alt
group, though...)

I wonder who started alt.comp.freeware?

 

[Lou]

I wonder who started alt.comp.freeware?

Susan???

 

[Kent]

Susan???

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Mike Bourke]

Susan???

Either you are asking if Susan knows, or you are asking if she started the
group. If the first, she will have to speak for herself, if the second then
I'm almost certain not. I always had the impression - rightly or wrongly -
that Son Of Spy (who sometimes gets a cameo mention even years after ceasing
active involvement in the group) was one of the founding fathers if not THE
big daddy.

Mike Bourke

 

[Susan Bugher]

miskairal wrote:

Susan???

Not guilty.

Susan
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Search alt.comp.freeware (or read it online):
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Pricelessware: http://www.pricelessware.org (not maintained)

 

[Lou]

Rob Kelk wrote:


Either you are asking if Susan knows, or you are asking if she started the
group. If the first, she will have to speak for herself, if the second then
I'm almost certain not. I always had the impression - rightly or wrongly -
that Son Of Spy (who sometimes gets a cameo mention even years after ceasing
active involvement in the group) was one of the founding fathers if not THE
big daddy.

Mike Bourke

It was the second.

Lou

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

Either you are asking if Susan knows, or you are asking if she started the
group. If the first, she will have to speak for herself, if the second then
I'm almost certain not. I always had the impression - rightly or wrongly -
that Son Of Spy (who sometimes gets a cameo mention even years after ceasing
active involvement in the group) was one of the founding fathers if not THE
big daddy.

http://groups.google.de/group/alt.config/browse_frm/thread/47192d49fc78fa49

BeAr

 

[granpaw]

Very interesting thread.
AND,I see they even argued about it back then.
I wonder if you could reply to that first post and tell the history of ACF,
naw nevermind, someone would start a flame war before the first flame war.

hmmmm.
granpaw

 

[ranrad]

Very interesting thread.
AND,I see they even argued about it back then.
I wonder if you could reply to that first post and tell the history of ACF,
naw nevermind, someone would start a flame war before the first flame war.

hmmmm.
granpaw

Speaking of which, know what ever happened to Genna? I see Boomer is still
around, and John Corliss. Another one would be Deep Thought, and little
girl.

 

[Mike Andrade]

Speaking of which, know what ever happened to Genna? I see Boomer
is still around, and John Corliss. Another one would be Deep
Thought, and little girl.

Genna was stabbed in the back by the Queen of Evil, Susan Bugupherass.

 

[miskairal]

http://groups.google.de/group/alt.config/browse_frm/thread/47192d49fc78fa49

BeAr

So it looks like a 10 year celebration mustn't be too far off?? 3rd
January if I've got it right. Always like an excuse for a party

 

[Mike Bourke]

Very interesting thread.
AND,I see they even argued about it back then.
I wonder if you could reply to that first post and tell the history of ACF,
naw nevermind, someone would start a flame war before the first flame war.

hmmmm.
granpaw

Or About the first flame war.

Mike

 

[kapok]

Genna was stabbed in the back by the Queen of Evil, Susan Bugupherass.

Not true, stupid, but what we have come to expect from you.
It's interesting to Google back and re-read what really happened.

Do Andrades Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

[Mike Andrade]

Not true, stupid, but what we have come to expect from you.

Anyone can go back and re-read what really happened, as you said. One
would have to be truly stupid to not see it.

It's interesting to Google back and re-read what really happened.

Do Andrades Dream of Electric Sheep?

Are all kapoks this brain dead?

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Omar=A9?=]

Anyone can go back and re-read what really happened, as you said. One
would have to be truly stupid to not see it.

Are all kapoks this brain dead?

Hey "pendejo" are you always this dense???
Omar