On Friday, February 16, 2024 at 12:13:45 AM UTC-8, Raymond Hall wrote:
>
> I went and paid for Easy News, and with the help of Thunderbird, managed
> after 100's of what seemed hours, to get through all the mess that these
> communication protocols present. What utterly boring and utterly
> confusing stuff. Thankfully after installing Thunderbird, the bird
> sorted out a lot of the problems by itself. Still not 100% sure of what
> is happening. I chose the closest servers to me, but may yet try the two
> regions in the US, the West Coast servers being the closest. It is all
> bit of a nightmare.
One must connect to multiple servers in order to gain coverage.
Remember that usenet servers are completely independent of
one another. No server is required to host all the groups, and
no server is required to store any messages for any length of
time. Usenet servers can even be set up as simple message
multiplexers with no local storage.
The main benefit of using Google as an internet server is/was
that Google inherited the Deja News archive, and that Google
has far more storage capacity than other usenet providers,
can be accessed from anywhere on the planet, and has huge
access bandwidth.
Cheers