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The Office of Information Technology (OIT) Usenet news server (either
dailyplanet.umd.edu or grapevine.wam.umd.edu), currently accessible via
such programs as Thunderbird, Outlook Express, tin, trn, etc., will be
retired on December 22, 2008. Usage of this service has waned in recent
years, and the information resources it provides to campus are now available
via other means, including FYI announcements and postings on
OIT's home and
Help Desk web pages. Other Usenet-related capabilities are
offered at numerous network-accessible venues, a few of which are listed
below:
- http://groups.google.com/ - Google Groups provides searchable
access to most of Usenet and allows for the creation of public,
announce-only, and restricted groups.
- http://news.motzarella.org/ provides free read and write access
to all text newsgroups. It requires a registration that can be done online.
- http://www.disenter.com/ lists public news servers that can be
freely accessed to read and post news.
- http://www.newzbot.com/ also provides a list of public news
servers, the ability to find a server that carries a particular list, as
well as general information on USENET.
Please note that OIT does not recommend or support any specific
commercial or public news server. The OIT Help
Desk can assist with basic configuration issues only, and cannot guarantee
to be able to resolve problems related to a remote server.
If you have any questions, please contact the
OIT Help Desk.
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