Question

31st December 2002, 02:42 PM

Do the people from the news groups come on this site?
Some of them are a bit, over the top, or rude, not all of them I did say some.
I hope I have not put my foot in my mouth again.

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**Jacob Remery** · 31st December 2002, 03:00 PM

In short: No.

Juan has implented these forums into the CL forum.
Normally newsgroups work with an e-mail account or better a news reader.

more info about newsgroups can be found here:
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/26nwsgrp.htm

Or here: http://christopherleeweb.com/forums/showth...=&threadid=3340

31st December 2002, 03:22 PM

Thanks Jacobs.

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**Trevor Ball** · 31st December 2002, 04:00 PM

I was wondering - If I was to post a message to one of the newsgroups via the forum, would my e-mail address be visible to anyone receiving the post via a news reader, such as Outlook Express?

I prefer to keep my e-mail address private as I've had problems with spam in the past, but none at all for the last few months and I hope to keep it that way.

Juan Aneiros · 31st December 2002, 04:04 PM

Your e-mail address is not visible anywhere. When you e-mail a member from this board it's hidden and you can block e-mails from this board in your CP.

You have more protection posting to newsgroups from here than you do with a newsreader.

**Jacob Remery** · 31st December 2002, 04:17 PM

I just checked the the alt.fan.hammer-films group with a news reader.

Some from the forum here posted a reply through the CL forums.
http://christopherleeweb.com/forums/showth...&threadid=25348

It appears that the replies made in the forum doesn't show up in the newsgroup itself.
Only in the thread from the CL forum, which means you can reply to the message and only people form the CL forum can read it.
People who post/read through a newsgroup programm or Outlook will not be able to read the reply.

Juan Aneiros · 31st December 2002, 04:50 PM

Quote:

It appears that the replies made in the forum doesn't show up in the newsgroup itself

They do, they are posted in real time. Perhaphs your newserver updates itself every 7 days or is just an archive of old posts. Don't confuse a web based news reader like Google, which is a spider, to a proper news server.

Try connecting to a decent server you will find that they are all there.