"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
:

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 02:11:57 +0000, "Steven L."
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
:

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:10:26 +0330, "Bijan" wrote:

Hi,

Sorry about cross posting, but after reading my question you'll see why it
was necessary.

Where I live, the only newsgroup which I can access is on Microsoft's
server; no other newsgroups are offered thru any ISPs (because of POLITIKAL
considerations).


You don't need a news server offered by your ISP. There are lots of
other news servers available to you--some for a charge and some for
free. Here's a well-known and very good free one that I use:
news.eternal-september.org

Hmm, curious name.

Is "September" some kind of inside joke?


Beats me. I don't know why they chose that name.

OK. I found out from Google search where that name comes from.

In September 1993, AOL offered gateway access to Usenet. And apparently
a whole lot of ignorant and rude AOLers began to invade Usenet. And
this heralded a never ending stream of such poorly behaved newbie users
to Usenet, hence "ETERNAL September."




-- Steven L.