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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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Date: 
Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:35:10 GMT
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One thing I don't understand, having now used NNTP (and saved an offline cache
of .trains 'just in case'!) is how you know about things in groups you don't
subscribe to? One of the things I like doing is seeing what is going on in other
groups every so often. Just because I don't really follow .space, for example,
doesn't mean that I don't appreciate viewing a good MOC on occasion. Lots of
building ideas and news trancend the groups it may be posted in.

Tim



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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
(...) a) You don't "subscribe" to a newsgroup, you follow it. b) You don't. That's the idea with not following a group. (...) Then you have to follow - or at least sporadically read - those groups. If we imagine the - still fictive - FTX aware (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Dear NNTP users,
 
For those of you using newsreaders, I have a few questions. I'm curious: what other sorts of stuff do you follow via newsreader? Anything cool? Are there many things you've been forced to switch to viewing other ways? How do you follow rss feeds? Is (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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