Re: iso image

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux, in article
<47042d6e$0$14864$bbae4d71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Cunningham wrote:

"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

[Note: 'comp.os.linux' is a placeholder for the comp.os.linux.* news
group hierarchy, and isn't carried on that many news servers. Try
posting to comp.os.linux.setup.]

OK I use the news client with outlook express. Is there a way to see
all these usenet groups via http? I'm just using nntp with the outlook.

HTTP != NNTP - completely different service. I can't tell you how
to use Lookout, as I've never had any version of windoze that included
it on my systems. Yes, there has to be a way to get the list, but I
don't know what it might be. Perhaps the hell-desk at your ISP can
suggest the right thing to kick.

As far as the sanctioned list of Big Eight newsgroups, there is a post
to the groups news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and news.lists.misc
on the 15th of every month with the subject "List of Big Eight
Newsgroups". I'll save you the effort - it has just 17 Linux newsgroups:

[compton ~]$ zgrep linux big.8.list.09.15.07.gz | cut -f1 | column
comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.alpha comp.os.linux.networking
comp.os.linux.announce comp.os.linux.portable
comp.os.linux.answers comp.os.linux.powerpc
comp.os.linux.development.apps comp.os.linux.security
comp.os.linux.development.system comp.os.linux.setup
comp.os.linux.embedded comp.os.linux.x
comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.xbox
comp.os.linux.m68k
[compton ~]$

All news servers should carry those (c.o.l.announce and c.o.l.answers
are moderated, the rest available to anyone). The Big Eight list has
a total of 2275 newsgroups. In addition, nearly all news servers carry
a lot more groups - the server I use has well over a hundred thousand
groups - which includes over 1100 with the word 'linux' in the name,
including

[compton ~]$ grep caldera .newsrc
alt.fr.os.caldera
alt.os.linux.caldera
[compton ~]$

which are probably completely dead given that Caldera was withdrawn as
a distribution in May 2003. But, one never knows until you look ;-)

Old guy
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