On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Allodoxaphobia wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:39:43 -0400, A wrote:

Did any of you guys look at http://groups.google.com to see if what you
want is there? There are lots of ways to connect to NG servers that are
outside of your network (unless they disable nntp protocols).

Ya, but... Post from Google and a Great Portion of the usenet
population will never see your postings:

I have access to three non-Google ISPs and in recent months, the posts
have been getting out to all of them just as fast as I can log onto them
by telnet and check for myself. They have improved over, say, a year ago.

Whether your post gets "out" far onto the net depends at least to some
degree on where on the net your ISP is located and what kind of traffic
flows there. I've had experience with about a dozen UNIX shell account
ISPs over the last 15 years and in the past there were quite a few that
did _not_ have good connectivity with other ISPs through the nntp
protocol. I'm not overly happy with Google for NG access, but if anyone is
unhappy with their own ISP's NG server (they can subscribe or block
whatever NGs they feel like) then certainly they should try Google. And,
you can even use Google (and other "portals") to find other NG accesses.


http://jonz.net/ng.htm

http://improve-usenet.org/

Jonesy
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