Dear Jan:
Jan van Oosterwijk wrote:
> Hello Fortranners,
>
> I prefer mail over news by far, but now that I have been looking
> at comp.lang.fortran for some days, I wonder why there is so much
> more traffic here than on comp-fortran-90?
>
> 1) How do I send a message to a news group? Must I subscribe ?
BOTH your Internet Service Provider (ISP) AND your e-mail
application must support newsgroups. I.e., your ISP must allow you to
read and subscribe to newsgroups. And, your e-mail reader must have the
capability of reading and subscribing to newsgroups. for the details,
contact your ISP and read your e-mail application's documentation.
Yes, you must subscribe, in order to read and write to newsgroups
the regular way.
There is a way around this.
1. Go to Google (http://www.google.com).
2. Click on the "Groups" tab.
3. Click on the "comp" link.
4. Click on the "comp.lang.*" link.
5. Click on the "comp.lang.fortran" link.
If you use Google Groups, you can also search any newgroup all of
the way back to the beginning of Usenet newsgroups (January 1, 1981).
> 2) Is there someone out there who uses both (I know there are) and can
> give me a hint on how I can get messages from NEWS into my mailbox ?
Just go into the newsgroup, read the message you are interested in,
and forward it to yourself. I'm using Netscape 7.1 under Windows XP
Professional, so it's real easy for me. There's a "Forward" button on
the toolbar at the top of the message window.
> Thanks,
>
>
> \---
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jan van Oosterwijk | "They that can give up essential
> liberty
> Netherlands | to obtain a little temporary safety
> deserve
> | neither liberty nor safety."
> | -- Benjamin
> Franklin (1759)
>
> mailto:Jan.vanOosterwijk<at>wanadoo<dot>NL
> http://huizen.dto<dot>tudelft.nl/vanOosterwijk/
>
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
(1759)
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