Accessing Usenet News Groups

Robert Holtzm holtzm at cox.net
Fri Jul 20 19:03:57 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:15:04AM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 
> WARNING. Usenet newsgroups are not moderated and "anything and
> everything goes" - its a "free for all". Some of the things stated
> in the is equivalent to what you hear coming from the mouths of
> politicians :-D .

Not true of all newsgroups! Some are moderated and some are not. The
alt.x.x groups aren't. Some of the rest aren't.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
If you think you're getting free lunch, 
check the price of the beer.
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