Michigan Usenet News FAQ
When I try to log into Usenet News from home, it says: Connection
Refused. Why?
To be able to use UofM's Usenet News service you must be logged into a
machine with a Umich or Merit IP address. You may use the newsreaders
tin and trn which are availible on machines in the login.itd.umich.edu
pool if you would like to use the Usenet News service when off campus.
An alternative way to read news would be to use the online service: groups.google.com
I want to read news in a group that isn't on the news server. What
should I do?
Email usenet@umich.edu and include the name of the groups that you
want to add in the email. If it is a group that already exists but
isn't on our server, it will be added as soon as possible. If the group
that you would like to have added is a new group and specific to the
University (such as extracurricular groups), please post a message to
umich.umce.usenet explaining the purpose of the group. You then must wait
for 2 weeks to see if there is any objection to the group. If there is
no objection, email usenet@umich.edu and it will be added to the server.
For class groups, users may just email usenet@umich.edu and don't have to
post to umich.umce.usenet.
Who can use the University's usenet news service?
Anyone who has a UofM Basic Computer Package can subscribe to
usenet newsgroups as long as they are connecting from a
UMich or Merit IP address or a Merit dialin connection.
There don't seem to be any articles in the clari.* hierarchy. Why?
You have to be connected through a dialup connection or on a UofM
machine in order to read any of the clari.* newsgroups. This is because of
licensing restrictions that clari is only availible on campus. You may
read clari via the login servers if you are using the dialin service.
As of January, 2004, we have discontinued our subscription to the clari
groups for financial reasons. The clari.* groups will be removed from our
newsfeed in February of this year. More information is here.
How long do articles stay in the news groups?
Articles for class newsgroups stay in the groups for one semester.
After the semester is over, all of the class newsgroups are reset. Any
article in the rec.* hierarcy is in the group for about 3 days. The time
that the rest of them stay around is variable. It is possible to save
articles for future use with the newsreader tin.
I want to create a group in the alt.*, rec.*, clari.*, etc. hierarcy.
How do I do that?
You need to post a message in the appropriate *.config group and then
email usenet@umich.edu to tell us that the group has been created.
I want to read an article that was posted to a news group a long time
ago. How would I go about doing that?
You can use the service: groups.google.com This will have all of the
articles from any news hierarcy such as news.*, clari.*, alt.*, etc.
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