On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:56:36 -0700, yvonne scholl wrote:

what are newsgroups? i know that this is one, i'm just trying to find
were i fit?

Newsgroups are topical groups on NNTP servers. The interconnection of
the various NNTP servers makes up the Usenet.

Unlike "lists", Usenet subscriptions do not result in email being sent
from the list to you. A Usenet "subscription" is really just telling
your client which groups, on which servers, you want to pull messages
from.

Unlike "BBS" (Bulletin Board Services), you do not have to contact every
NNTP server which has the groups which interest you. NNTP servers have
"newsfeeds" which pull articles from other NNTP servers. When you post a
message, which is actually called an "article" in NNTP-speak, your
server gets your article from your client, then spools your article on a
feed. Other NNTP servers will get your article on their feed, and so on,
until your article has propagated across all the NNTP servers which
carry the group you posted to.

Ordinarily, I post through 'msnews.mircosoft.com', but for this one, I
switched to 'news.sf.sbcglobal.net'. It is very easy to switch in my
news reader, which is 40tude Dialog.

From your NNTP posting headers, I see that you are using MSOE as your
news reader:

| X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869

I can see that you are posting to 'msnews.microsoft.com':

| Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl

And I can see that you are posting from a Comcast account:

| NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-160-xxx-xx.hsd1.or.comcast.net 67.160.xxx.xx

You can access the headers of this post by checking the message
properties while you are reading it.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum