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How to post a message on Usenet?

FrankGrimes · 2008-07-02 23:49:46

I have a couple of newsgroups on usenet that I find plenty of interesting articles on. I have an account with usenetmonster and use GrabIt to manage my subscriptions to those groups. However, despite lots of trying, I have just never figured out how to go about posting a message to those groups. Thought I had it figured…

03-07-2008 12:49am

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FrankGrimes

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I have a couple of newsgroups on usenet that I find plenty of interesting articles on. I have an account with usenetmonster and use GrabIt to manage my subscriptions to those groups. However, despite lots of trying, I have just never figured out how to go about posting a message to those groups.

Thought I had it figured out but GrabIt told me that posting messages are not allowed on this server, so I'm obviously doing something wrong. Any ideas how I can go about posting up a message using GrabIt (I'd prefer this over an email-based approach but could do that if necessary).

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#2 03-07-2008 12:51am

jor el

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You might have to enable posting capability on your usenetmonster account. Some usenet providers disable posting by default.

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