[Nottingham] USENET news servers

[Alan Pope]

On 3/1/06, Michael Erskine <msemtd at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:33, Alan Pope wrote:
> > But that's not NNTP, that's HTTP, which is no good over dial up.
>
> Works here! :)
>

What I mean is traditionally people use nntp to download en-masse
messages and read them offline with an offline reader like "pan" or
"ouhouse express". AFAICT you can't do that with google groups.

Cheers,
Al.