[Coco] News gateways (was Test)

[jimcox at miba51.com]

Another option to using your ISP's newservers is to use 
Google's groups option.  

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:37 -0400
  Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>At 03:13 PM 10/10/03 EDT, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>>Some of us have no idea how to "point" their "newsreader" 
>>(which is part of 
>>the ISP package) at anything other than the magic 
>>wherever that the ISP uses.
>
>Good point. I have a backup AOL subscription, but only 
>use it as an
>Internet gateway when I'm traveling.
>
>AOL is now a functional ISP in that you don't need to use 
>anything about it
>except the dialup (or broadband) connection. Once you 
>connect, you're free,
>free, free, I tell ya!
>
>Here's how I use news when logged onto AOL:
>
>1. Get a copy of a free newsreader (I use the 
>surprisingly versatile old
>Netscape 3.04 from 1997 -- you can all all sorts of news 
>servers to it).
>2. Minimize the AOL 'console' (or whatever it's called).
>3. Run the newsreader -- and voila! It will use AOL like 
>any other old ISP!
>
>Same goes for other Internet software. Sign on to AOL, 
>minimize its
>application interface, and run whatever else you like. 
>They will connect
>nicely.
>
>You can't access AOL's internal services this way (such 
>as mail), but
>external mail will work, news will work, telnet will 
>work, etc.
>
>Dennis
>
>
>
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