OFF: Usenet

[Jerry Guizar]

In <q+djjBAXFe5yEw+a at comics.demon.co.uk>, on 01/22/97 at 09:43 AM,
   Jon Browne <jon at COMICS.DEMON.CO.UK> said:

>In message <9701212156.AA12943 at borg.med.ecu.edu>, Martyn White
><white at BORG.MED.ECU.EDU> writes
>>        Here in North carolina, the University does not believe
>>in supplying us with a USENET server.  I have been using a remote
>>site in the UK to read USENET with my web client.  However they
>>have recently withdrawn access.  Does anyone know of any of any
>>usenet servers allowing remote access.  My web searches failed to
>>turn up anything

>No promises cos I've never used it but you try  pubnews.demon.co.uk or
>pubnews.demon.net  I'm not sure if you Telnet into or set your  offline
>newsreader to connect to it but it's a public access newsfeed for non-
>Demon memebers and it's actually up most of the time.

   There's a couple that are available via gopher (or there was). I don't
remember the names now - it's been a few years - maybe the U of Minnesota?

Jerry

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