Usenet

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Monday 12 March 2007 12:41:58 Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > Kurt, I dimly recall way back when there was an IRC command line that
> > would suck down a list of all of the available newsgroups.. it took
> > forever to arrive too! Maybe that is what he's looking for? Man, that
> > was back in the modem days. I had to get a dedicated line from Beckley
> > to Charleston WV (wide area line) to even hit the net back then at local
> > rates. Ric
>
> Isn't Usenet managed? How could you add or delete a newsgroup then?

You can't remove a group globally. However, any news feed (news server) can 
decide on it's own if they want to carry (subscribe to) a news group. If your 
news server does not subscribe to a news group, you cannot see it. 

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Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB