Did A.O.L. do us?

[bear]

A.O.L. notified all clients they no longer subscribe to most "newsgroups" This is just a test to see if I'm still getting through to this forum Plse. send a short cnfirmation by forum or E-mail REGARDS BEAR (art)

[Mike_Noren]

A.O.L. notified all clients they no longer subscribe to most "newsgroups" This is just a test to see if I'm still getting through to this forum

Yeah, you're fine. They're not dropping support for web forums, they're dropping support for newsgroups, which is a kind of decentralized world-wide fora. You can still access the newsgroups via Google groups (google originally was a search motor for newsgroups), but the signal-to-noise ratio of newsgroups is nowadays very low. Basically web forums like planetcatfish have replaced the newsgroups, and the groups have been dying for years.

[bear]

Duhh duhh aaa The one thing I understood was
Yeah, you're fine....I'm checking all forums in my favourites , some are still working, and some I have to find a backdoor into Thanks for responding promptly
At least now my mind is at rest about this forum As you may have guessed I'm a rank amateur on the p.c. and never know if something wen't wrong or if I screwed up ?
Regardles, Thanks again and moving on

[Mike_Noren]

Don't worry about it. Most people, even those who are knowlegdeable about computers, don't know that the newsgroups exist. They're a remnant from the early days of internet, they were once called USENet and was what existed before the World Wide Web and HTML.

If you're interested in having a look at them go to Google and click 'groups' and enter a search. Google bought Deja-News, a search engine for the newsgroups, and has stored about a billion posts covering every topic conceivable. Searching the newsgroups can often turn up information not found anywhere else.

If you have seen the site http://www.thekrib.com , it consists largely of select newsgroup postings (and mailing list postings).