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[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:21:06 +0100
"Rob T" <rob at ucora.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 6 December 2012 at 19:43:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
> > "Rob T" <rob at ucora.com> wrote:
> >> Many ISP's have dropped usenet services completely,
> >
> > Doesn't matter since we use a dedicated server
> 
> If memory serves, I need an address to the dedicated server,

news.digitalmars.com

DNS will automatically find the actual IP address. So it's really
very, very simple: Just create a new NNTP account in your favorite
NNTP client, set the server to "news.digitalmars.com", and that's it:
you should be good. That's all anyone needs to worry about.

> and 
> I need to know where in the hierarchy this newsgroups sits.
> 

You don't really need to know that, but here's the answer FWIW:

It sits as the single, only node in a completely separate "hierarchy".

FWIW, vibe.d's NG server works the same way, AIUI.

> Maybe there are instructions buried away somewhere, but I didn't 
> see them.
> 

See Walter's reply.

> > Also: http://www.eternal-september.org/
> 
> I searched for "programming", "dlang" and a few other terms, but 
> no luck finding this newsgroup.
> 
> At this point, I'm still stuck with the web interface.
> 

Sorry, I wasn't clear about that: When I mentioned
eternal-september.org I wasn't talking about D's NG, I was only talking
about the other "typical" Usenet channels (or whatever they're called).

Ie, if you want to use some "normal" NG like "comp.lang.c++" or
"alt.whatever", and your ISP doesn't provide a Usenet server (or you
don't know/care what your ISPs Usenet server is), then you can just use
eternal-september.org (one you register an account there).

BUT, since D's NG exists completely *outside* the standard Usenet, it's
not available at eternal-september.org (Fortunately though, it
doesn't need to be there since you can always just connect directly to
news.digitalmars.com regardless of your ISP).

I only mentioned eternal-september.org as a response to "Many ISP's
have dropped usenet services completely". I didn't mean it as having
anything to do with D's NG.