Re: Accessing Secnews

[Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay Garcia wrote:
> On 05.07.2008 02:58, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Jay, I'm probably just burning up my Stupid Question For The Month at a 
>> very early date, but what's the advantage to the user of using the 
>> secnews server?
>>
> Summed up pretty nicely by Dan, but I can add:
> 
> 1. Because it's there! ;-)
> 2. No incoming OR outgoing feed to usenet or otherwise
> 3. Liberal posting policy(s)
> 4. Spam harvesting softwares are few and far between that can
> scan/harvest an SNEWS server. Yes, it CAN be done but usually not worth
> the effort.
> 5. NNTP Server software loaded/running on dedicated server, not shared.
> 6. It's FREE !!
> 7. reg is not blocked. :-)

Thanks for the addenda, Jay.


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