On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:12:13 -0700, Pat Miller wrote:

PS it is interesting to me that I can send email to the Newsgroup. Guess it
is direct and smtp is not involved.

Correct. News is sent via servers using the NNTP protocol. SMTP is not
involved.

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Norman
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