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This article is from the Lebanon FAQ, by Alaa Dakroub dakroub@leb.net with numerous contributions by others.

1. Can I post/receive to/from this newsgroup or other newsgroups if I don't have the permission or I don't have a direct access to a news server ?

There are some sites that allow public connections, there was for a while
a list maintained by lesikar@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu in which it was listed
the public news sites. This list is no more availble because of the refuse of
sys adminstrators to publish the address of their public sites. Eventhough
reading news still possible through gopher, a search using term USENET or news
whith veronica will be enough to find a bunch of news sites through gopher.

There are still probably two ways of posting to SCL(1), the first is to
use an anonymous server something that was not that appreciated by most of
SCLers, and the other is to send your post soc-culture-lebanon@cs.utexas.edu,
please note the hyphens instead of periods, I was not testing this way since a
while so there is no garantee that your post make it to scl.

(1) Of course in case you don't have direct access to a news server.

Recently a guide for using Internet via E-mail was mentionned on SCL,
It's :

Accessing The Internet By E-Mail
Doctor Bob's Guide to Offline Internet Access
3rd Edition - December 1994

Copyright (c) 1994, "Doctor Bob" Rankin

Finding the Latest Version
--------------------------

This document is now available from several automated mail servers.
To get the latest edition, send e-mail to one of the addresses below.

To: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (for US/Canada/etc.)
Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
GET INTERNET BY-EMAIL NETTRAIN F=MAIL

To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu (for Eastern US)
Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email

To: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk (for UK/Europe/etc.)
Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt

You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites:

Site: ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
get NETTRAIN/INTERNET.BY-EMAIL
Site: rtfm.mit.edu
get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
Site: mailbase.ac.uk
get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt

Also on SCL a server (? 2) were mentionned here it goes an expert of the
mentionned message:

As I mentioned in a previous posting you can post throught E-mail by sending
your E-mail

TO : soc.culture.lebanon.usenet @ decwrl.dec.com

Also you can read the postings of any Usenet Newsgroup . Send your E-mail

To : listproc@www0.cern.ch
or
To: listserv@www0.cern.ch

- leave the Subject empty.

- If you just want to read the titles first write in the body of your E-mail
the following :

send news:soc.culture.lebanon
- If you want to read all the postings write in the body of your E-mail the
following:

deep news:soc.culture.lebanon

- If you pay for the Usage of E-mails received please be careful with using
the (deep) statement. The amount of E-mails will be equal to number of postings
and
it could expensive. If you do not pay per E-mail received then enjoy the
service .

 

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