1.6 Hungary On USENET
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This article is from the Hungarian FAQ, by Zoli Fekete fekete@bc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
1.6 Hungary On USENET
The Hungarian newsgroup in the worldwide hierarchy is
<news:soc.culture.magyar>. It's mostly in English, sometimes
bilingual, and occasionally Hungarian only. The group is archived by
HIX (see its section for 'SCM') and is also readable under
<http://www.hix.com/usenet/>. A similar archive is to be found at
<http://mineral.umd.edu/usenet/> (see 1.8 below). For www/e-mail
gateways see <http://www.siliconvalley.com/nemzetiforum.html> or the
archives mentioned above.
Since May 1995 Hungary has its own netnews hierachy, with the following
groups created so far (hun.lists.* are email gateways):
<news:hun.test>
<news:hun.news>
<news:hun.piac>
<news:hun.comp>
<news:hun.general>
<news:hun.lists.hix.forum>
<news:hun.lists.hix.hunet>
<news:hun.lists.hix.moka>
<news:hun.lists.hix.otthonka>
<news:hun.lists.hix.szalon>
<news:hun.lists.hix.tipp>
<news:hun.lists.hix.vita>
<news:hun.lists.hix.otthon>
<news:hun.lists.hix.guru>
<news:hun.lists.hix.kornyesz>
<news:hun.lists.katalist>
If you can connect to a remote news server (typically by setting the
NNTPSERVER variable under Unix), then you can get hun.* directly from
news.sztaki.hu or news.iif.hu (the former has been more stable
lately). Fetching articles is much faster from a local source - ask
you system administrator if they can get a feed! In the USA the first
provider offering the hierarchy seems to be AltNet,
<mailto:info@alt.net> to find out about that. There is a gopher
interface to news: <gopher://mars.iif.hu:70/11/News> (the full URL to
go straight to the hun.* groups is:
<gopher://mars.iif.hu:70/1exec%3A-g%20hun%3A/bin/gonnrp>).
For accessing groups in the international hierarchy from abroad via
gopher the gateway in the Netherlands may be better:
<gopher://g4nn.cca.vu.nl:4320/1g4nn%20group/soc.culture.magyar>. The
hun.* groups are also archived by HIX (see its section for 'HUNGROUPS')
and they are also readable under <http://www.hix.com/usenet/> as well
as <http://mineral.umd.edu/usenet/>.
HIX provides a universal posting gateway to the soc.culture.magyar and
hun.* newsgroups. Use the addresses:
<mailto:group-name-with-dashes@www.hix.com>, for example
<mailto:soc-culture-magyar@www.hix.com>. A similar gatewaying service
is also available for soc.culture.magyar via
<mailto:majordomo@glue.umd.edu> (see 1.8 below), as well as via
<mailto:nemzetiforum@magyar.siliconvalley.com> (see also 2.3).
There are Hungarian local newsgroups available through
<telnet://ludens.elte.hu>, login with username GUEST (no password), and
enter NEWS to start the newsreader (you can use the VMS online help to
learn about it). The guest account is set up for accessing
<news:elte.diaklap> (students' journal at Eotvos U.), but other
newsgroups are available as well. (But please be considerate to the
strained network resources of Hungarian sites - from abroad for
non-local news use other providers.) For ELTE-specific questions
contact <mailto:hiik@ludens.elte.hu>. This server is also accessible
via remote NNTP like the two mentioned above, but is often much slower
than those.
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