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My Server

My server is included on the list of available news servers because it is always accessible to me and I didn't want to remove it from the list. I use it for testing software involving Usenet news and for general messing around. The way it is used adversely affects it's usefulness to just about anyone but me.

Another problem with allowing public access to my server is that I have tried it before. I opened it up during a weekend and then went out of town. When I returned on Sunday night I discovered that all of my and my customer's sites had effectively been shut down for the entire weekend because of the load.

Becuase I wanted to share with the community, but am restricted as to how generous I can be, I decided to create a web based news reader. The reader is not complete, but is very functional at present. It has the following features:

Newsgroup Search

To search for a newsgroup you are interested in, please enter the name in the box below. If the name you request is too vague (matches more than 25 newsgroup names), you will probably want to refine your search to help improve your chances of finding a specific newsgroup. Also, I only display the first 100 matches I find for your request, so the following search engine rules might be useful to limit the search. Please make your search strings as specific as possible. Longer search strings return matches more quickly than short ones.
Group name pattern

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Hitting refresh during a search causes your new search to take even longer. The database server does not recognize timeouts or disconnects and keeps doing each search until complete.

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