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All dialup accounts come with free news service. The
LanZing.net News service is maintained by ChatLink which
maintains over 50,000+ active newsgroups. Users must be
dialed into a POP provided by
LanZing.Net in
order to use the news server and must login to the news
service using their dialup username and password. Most
popular mail clients can be used as mail readers. These
include MS Outlook, Outlook Express and Mozilla
Thunderbird. . This service can be located at:
news.lanzing.net
What are Newsgroups?
A newsgroup is like a web forum,
where users post public messages regarding a certain
topic. Discussion groups on the Internet (not on the Web,
which is only one area of the Internet). Newsgroups are
classified by subject matter and do not necessarily deal
with journalism or "news." Health, hobbies, celebrities,
and cultural events are the subjects of many newsgroups.
Participants in a newsgroup conduct discussions by
posting messages for others to read, and responding to
the messages posted by others.
While chat is a way to communicate with people in
"real time" (like a telephone conversation), Newsgroups
allow you to "post" messages (called a "posting"),
respond to others' posts, and even download files
they've left there for you, all when it's most
convenient for you.
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LanZing.Net provides users access to over
50,000+ USENET
newsgroups, and the articles will load quickly. Also
included for no additional cost are the popular
'Clarinet' newsgroups, which offer up-to-the minute
national and local news and syndicated columnists.
In order to load all of the 50,000+ newsgroups you
must select the 'refresh' or 'rebuild group list' option
in your newsreader software. The first time you load the
50,000+ newsgroups, it will take a few minutes. You
should only need to refresh your newsgroups once.
Currently our retention time (how long we hold
messages) is about 180+ days in text groups and 3 weeks
in binaries. This number may vary over time. There are
currently over 64,000 groups.
Use the search below to find newsgroups that contain
words or phrase that you are interested in.
News content provided
by the Associated Press. Weather content provided by Weather.com
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