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MAIL,
NEWS,
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MAIL,
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From a user's perspective, mail and news are very similar mediums. They both enable you to communicate with people around the world by sending messages over the Net. These messages have compatible formats and you can send mail messages to news groups, news group messages to mailboxes, and, if you have powerful software such as Pine, you can send a message to news groups and mailboxes at the same time. You can think of mail and news as being essentially the same, with news usually considered public and mail usually considered private.This page includes information that is relevant to:
Mail and News
- Jacob Palme's Harmonizing Internet Email and Usenet News - if you are interested in working on an IETF standard for combined mail and news clients, you can join the mailnews-l mailing list by sending mail to listserv@segate.sunet.se with sub mailnews-l Your Real Name in the body of the message.
- Signature, Finger, and Customized Headers FAQ
- World Time Zones
- Anonymous Mailing and Posting
- PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
- Writing
- Software that is both a mail client and news reader
- News Groups Related to both Mail and News
Mainly Mail
- FAQs and News Groups Related to Mail
- Mail Clients
- Comparison of mail clients and protocols they support is at Andrew II's Internet Email Client Check List
- Consummate Winsock Apps List of Windows Mail Clients
- Yahoo's Computers and Internet:Software:Electronic Mail
- Miscellaneous Unix Mail Clients
- Also see above Software that is both a mail agent and news reader
- Finding and Using Mailing Lists
- Liszt
- Indiana University's Search for Mailing Lists
- Yahoo's Computers and Internet:Internet:Mailing Lists
- Getting Technical
- More Mail Links
Mainly News
- FAQs and News Groups Related to News
- News Readers
- Infinite Ink's The NN News Reader
- Iain Lea's Tin News Reader Homepage
- TRN and other news.software.readers FAQs
- News Xpress FAQ
- Consummate Winsock Apps List of Windows News Readers
- Most Web browsers can use the news: URL to read and participate in news groups.
- Yahoo's Computers and Internet:Software:Usenet
- Also see above Software that is both a mail agent and news reader
- Finding . . .
- News Groups
- FAQs (which you should read before you post!)
- News Archives
- Cameron Laird's "Where can I find an archive for a news group"
- DejaNews - excludes alt.*, soc.*, and *.binaries
- NetNews Harvest
- Infoseek - over 13,000 groups including alt.* and talk.* (you need to register to search their news archives)
- EEP - .newsrc editor
- Some of Infinite Ink's News-Related Articles
- News has a long history of Net legends, both people and stories. One of my favorite legends is Archimedes Plutonium, who can be found in alt.sci.physics.plutonium. I don't read Archimedes, aka Ludwig, that often but when I do I usually get a chuckle out of him.
- More News Links
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