On 2011-05-21, Karl Townsend wrote:
I'm curious, is the below site some sort of mirror of RCM? Can you
post here when on the road and have it show up on RCM? Maybe I've been
sleeping under a rock but didn't know of such things.

Karl


http://www.rittercnc.com/metalworking/1.htm

Well ... rec.crafts.metalworking is a usenet newsgroup, which
means that it is not locked to a single sever -- it appears at many
servers throughout the world, and anything which you post at one
eventually should make it to all the others (assuming no no-nos like
binary attachments). And in this sense, *all* usenet servers are
mirrors of each other.

However, what you see is a gateway -- and apparently a one-way
gateway, because I see articles there which I have not seen in my usenet
server -- unless they are still in transit. But your question article
does show up there.

They do not make it clear that they import usenet, which is not
what I would consider proper, but it is not copyrighted, so they can get
away with it.

Personally, I would not use rittercnc.com for posting even if I
were sure that it made it to the full usenet distribution, because I
feel like working in a straitjacket when posting on a web based forum.
(I'm deprived of the features which my choice of editor gives me with a
real newsreader on my system.)

If you have net access, you should be able to access (from
anywhere) any of a number of usenet servers, including the one which I
use (news.newsguy.net) which costs about $10.00 per month, or $100.00
per year (your choice).

Good Luck,
DoN.

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