Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Freenet via usenet? Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 13:58:52 GMT References: <9104290111.AA18986@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> Organization: St. Croix Valley C and Ski Lines: 25 [In article <9104290111.AA18986@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aa400@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc A. Lombardo) writes ... ] > I just wanted to know if all of you USEnet readers can access the > Cleveland freenet's atari sig area via usenet. There are several Nope. Freenet discussion groups are not part of Usenet. Usenet is netnews in the seven major hierarchies, and that's all. Freenet is accessible to Internet sites*, but they are only a fraction of the Usenet. Freenet could set up a digest-by-mail service if it chose to do so. Many of the Usenet newsgroups are delivered as digests to sites that, for whatever reason, cannot receive conventional Usenet service. (*Internet sites are systems running Internet TCP/IP network communications protocols AND connected to a regional network that is a component of the Internet. Such connections can be extremely expensive, so most smaller businesses and private sites get email and Usenet through other methods, such as UUCP. Domain addresses do not indicate that a site is on the Internet.) ---- Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org