usenet problem

[Jacob Davis]

Hi. I am a newbie to usenet. I am using mac and have downloaded a
free usenet client, "MT-NewsWatcher". I put in comp.lang.pytho n but
it says that it cannot get the address of the news server host. My
config says it is trying on port 119. Thanks for any help.

Jake

[Ben Finney]

Re: usenet problem

Jacob Davis <j.foster.davis @gmail.comwrite s:

Hi. I am a newbie to usenet. I am using mac and have downloaded a
free usenet client, "MT-NewsWatcher". I put in comp.lang.pytho n but
it says that it cannot get the address of the news server host.

'comp.lang.pyth on' is the name of the newsgroup, not the name of a
host (machine). Usenet newsgroups are accessible from many different
machines worldwide, all of which propagate the messages to each other
so that (ideally) any one group can be treated as a single group
distributed across the world.

<URL:http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Usenet>

You need to access the newsgroup via one of those servers, called a
"news feed" or "Usenet provider". That server's hostname is what you
need to configure your software to connect with.

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