What is all this M15 stuff?

smellmynadsnow.DeleteThis@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Nov 25, 1:28 pm, Eric Forgeot <use_form_on_webs....DeleteThis@anamnese.fr.st>
> wrote:
>
> What do you mean "newsgroup software", are you using a different
> program to read this?
>
> I am interacting with this through Google.

Many email programs, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, incorporate Usenet
clients. However, your ISP may or may not be set up to allow Usenet
access. If it isn't, you can link to a free Usenet service. I use
news.aioe.org.

Thunderbird's Usenet interface isn't perfect, but it's better than Google's.

--Jim Aikin
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Here, smellmynadsnow.DeleteThis@yahoo.com wrote:
> Am I missing out on some amazing IF thing or is the group being coated
> with spam every day.
>
> Is this M15 important? What is it?

It's spam, or rather just vandalism. (Not trying to make money, just
break Usenet.) Some sites are blocking it -- I haven't seen it on this
newsgroup, although it's overflowing the filter a little on some other
groups.

--Z

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9/11 did change everything. Since 9/12, the biggest threat to American
society has been the American president. I'd call that a change.
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smellmynadsnow RemoveThis @yahoo.com wrote:

> Am I missing out on some amazing IF thing or is the group being coated
> with spam every day.
>
> Is this M15 important? What is it?

I can see them on google, but my newsgroups software doesn't download them.
Maybe there are some filters, or it's on different servers ?

It's the problem on usenet, there is no moderator on thoses groups...
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smellmynadsnow.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Nov 25, 1:28 pm, Eric Forgeot <use_form_on_webs....TakeThisOut@anamnese.fr.st>
> wrote:
>> I can see them on google, but my newsgroups software doesn't download them.
>> Maybe there are some filters, or it's on different servers ?
>>
>> It's the problem on usenet, there is no moderator on thoses groups...
>
> What do you mean "newsgroup software", are you using a different
> program to read this?
>
> I am interacting with this through Google.

Google Groups is a web interface/gateway to Usenet. I'm accessing
Usenet "directly" through an NNTP server. Note that's there's no
central place called "Usenet"; it's a network of servers, and each one
syncs with its neighbors, so when you post something, it propagates to
all the others.

I'm using Thunderbird for that. Outlook Express works too. There are
dedicated clients too that only deal with Usenet access.

Some ISPs provide NNTP servers for free (the servers usually have a
hostname of news.name_of_isp.com or nntp.name_of_isp.com).

The one I'm using is free for everyone inside Greece (news.grnet.gr) and
it does spam-filtering (the MI5 posts you mentioned, or any other spam,
never showed up in this newgroup).

To get an idea of how "it looks like", this is a screenshot of
Thunderbird on Windows XP (I assume you're on Windows) currently reading
this discussion:

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2913/tbusenetrl8.png
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Eric Forgeot <use_form_on_website DeleteThis @anamnese.fr.st> writes:

> smellmynadsnow DeleteThis @yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Am I missing out on some amazing IF thing or is the group being coated
>> with spam every day.
>>
>> Is this M15 important? What is it?
>
> I can see them on google, but my newsgroups software doesn't download them.
> Maybe there are some filters, or it's on different servers ?
>
> It's the problem on usenet, there is no moderator on thoses groups...

There are moderated groups as well.

Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet for the whole story. It's a
distributed network of sites and Google is just a small part of it.

Get yourself a favour and get a dedicated newsreader. That way you can
get a much more sensible user interface than google gives you.

/Andreas

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