Bin mit Newsgroups nicht sehr bewandert.
Habe Q1.4 mal quergelesen aber www.csr.com/forum.htm geht nimmer ;-(
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Q1.4) How do I connect to the CSR newsgroups?
The CSR newsgroups run on an industry standard NNTP server. Many
programs can be used to access it.
Setup instructions for Netscape and Outlook Express are at
http://www.csr.com/forum.htm
For any other newsreader, the appropriate information is that the
server is at news.csr.com and everything else is set as standard.
Please turn off all fancy features. In particular don't use
background images or Outlook Express stationery. It just wastes
bandwidth and can cause problems with other newsreaders. Turning
HTML messages off will also endear you to us.
Also, it would be appreciated if you didn't use a name including `CSR'
or similar when posting as this might be confusing. Newsreaders
typically allow you to set this as `Display name', `Your Name', or
something similar when you set up the server to connect to. You don't
have to use your real name --- we don't care --- but we'd rather
people didn't think you were CSR!
It may be that when you first connect, no newsgroups are visible. In
this case you will need to 'Subscribe' to the groups you're interested
in.
If you're not sure whether your newsreader is configured correctly,
then post a message to csr.public.test. Test messages should not be
posted to other newsgroups.
If you're reading news over a modem link, you may want to consider
configuring your newsreader not to automatically download messages
over a particular size. Good newsreaders should show you the headers
of large messages (in particular, the sender and the subject) so you
can choose to download only those messages of interest.
Since we are running standard NNTP it might be possible for you (or
us) to mirror the server to improve download speed and reduce the
load on our main server. You may want to do this if there you have a
lot of readers at one site and your network connection to us is slow.
Although this is technically feasible, please contact us first before
doing it. We'll almost certainly need to configure something here,
we'll want to see that you have enough users to justify our effort,
and we'll need assurances that the messages won't propagate
uncontrollably. Specifically, if you let our newsgroups escape onto
Usenet we'll hunt you down and prod you with big pointy sticks.
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