Works great Jon. Even from @home, surprising in itself.
Ron
"Jon Steiger" <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
news:8usmsh$u9k$1@twisted.twistedbits.net...
>
> WOOHOO! Looks like its finally working! All it took was a little
> munging and hacking. ;-)
>
> OK, here's the deal... The DML is still available the same way it
> always was, where you interact via e-mail messages. However, it is
> now *also* available as a newsgroup. For those of you unfamiliar
> with newsgroups, ummm.... I'm not sure exactly how to explain them.
> :-) Surely there must be a good description out there somewhere.
> Or maybe someone can come up with a good explanation. Basically the
> posts appear in the group similar to individual e-mail messages, but
> you aren't forced to actually download the message to read it. (You
> "go to" the group and messages rather than having the messages "come
> to" you. The news reader can show you the subjects (threaded nicely),
> and you choose what you want to read, and only those messages are
> downloaded. As Andy Levy mentioned, there are a mess of other cool
> features too, but the one that will probably matter to most DMLers is
> the fact that you don't have to receive a ton of mail to participate
> in the DML.
>
> It doesn't matter whether you post your messages the usual way,
> via e-mail to dakota-truck@buffnet.net or via the dakota-truck
> newsgroup. Your message will show up in both places.
>
> You will need a news reader to be able to access the newsgroup.
> Most versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer have them built-in.
> There are also many to choose from at http://www.tucows.com.
>
> Since there are so many different news readers out there, I
> won't be able to tell you exactly how to configure yours to read
> the DML newsgroup, but here is the basic information which should
> allow you to figure out how to do it:
>
> News server: news.dakota-truck.net
> usercode: dml
> password: dml
>
> The name of the newsgroup is "dakota-truck".
>
>
> Well, like I mentioned, it appears to be working now, so those of you
> who want to give 'er a try, have at it! :-)
>
> PS: Currently, you do not have to go through any sort of "subscribe"
> procedure to be able to post to the DML via the newsgroup. I'm
> planning to just leave it like that for now, but if spam and such
> were to become a problem, I'll implement a process whereby you will
> need to "subscribe" in order to post. (Basically, "subscribing" would
> involve me putting your e-mail address in an "approved poster" list
> somewhere.)
>
> If you have any questions, comments, problems, or concerns, feel free
> to drop me a line. TTYL!
>
> --
>
> -Jon-
>
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