In article ,
KLS wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:51:59 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

I'll note that many or most government/corporate sites stopped hosting
or passing on news, years ago, once they transitioned from UNIX to NT
servers, and GIU desktops, since web sites better fufilled their
internal requirements. Been a long time since the bandwidth usage for
Usenet was 'lost in the weeds', and a sysadmin could sneak it past
corporate.

I remember being able to read newsgroups with trn, years ago, and then
we were forced to move to those NT servers, and then trn wasn't
available. A sad day. Agent is ok, but I really liked trn.

I'm using trn4 right now. Man is it cool -- especially that
little picture of the lying-on-its-side "tree" up in the
right corner. (tree of current region of the thread, shows
where you are, the branching-offs, etc.)

I do it through www.panix.com, a nyc-based company.

Provides "shell accounts" -- ie you're at a unix prompt,
and explicitly run trn or mutt (one of the email programs
they support), can compile programs, can do whatever.

AND the newsgroups -- they keep each one for about two months,
really nice since you can go read one only every few weeks and
still miss nothing.



Hooray for panix.

Oh, there's a local newsgroup, panix.questions, where users
post and answer questions, large threads on this and that.

Most of those guys are SMART! (WAY smarter than I am). Good
source of info.


David