Re: Newsgroups

From: Brian Tillman (tillman1952_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/09/04


Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:00:16 -0400

Ullas <rkl_busmish@sancharnet.in> wrote:

> Somebody please tell me some good newsgroups along with their NNTP
> servers. I know some newsgroups but don't know their NNTP
> servers.Thus I cannot configure them in Outlook.Is there a way out???

Depends on the groups. Microsoft's groups can be found on
msnews.microsoft.com. All other Usenet groups can be found on either your
ISP's news server or on one of the many free news servers around the world.
Google for "free news server".

-- 
Brian Tillman


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