Re: Attn: Ray - OpenNews Network

[Ray Banana]

* Sn!pe wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
> You mentioned the OpenNews Network in the shed recently.
> I haven't heard of this before and most of the interesting info
> seems to be in German (my GoogleFu is weak...)
>
> I've found <http://www.o-n-n.org/> but so far not a list of
> ONN servers, is there such a thing? TIA

Drats, I never realized that there is no consistent english version
of the OpenNews Network web site. A good starting point seems to be

http://wiki.open-news-network.org/index.php/UserFAQ

although many pages only seem to be available in German. At least,
there is a list of servers:

http://wiki.open-news-network.org/index.php/ServerListe

As you will see, the servers participating in this network have
aliases named news[1-6].open-news-network.org in addition to their
usual names (news1.open-news-network.org is Albasani, for example).
As the OpenNews Network is a loose cooperation of Usenet servers, they
have no consistent article numbers across the network and even the group
lists are different. They share, however, a common LDAP user directory,
so it's possible to use all servers with the same login data.

BTW: I just noticed that even the Wikipedia article on Open-News-Network e.V.
confuses open-news-network.org and o-n-n.org:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-News-Network_e.V.


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[Ray Banana]

* Sn!pe wrote:

> While I do have backup a/cs on several free servers, does that mean
> that my E-S credentials will work with Albasani, Solani and others?
> If so, what a good idea. Not that I'm about to jump ship, mind. :)

Neither E-S nor Solani are part of the OpenNews Network, sorry.