David> Are there any public or semi-public news servers out there?
Not that allow unauthenticated posting and will give you anything like
good propagation; spammers and other net-abusers just *love* to find
sites like that, so they quickly get aliased out at any site that cares
about news quality.
(Think about it: the reason such sites are open for posting is that their
administrator is incompetent and/or they are running defective software.
So why would you trust your FAQ to them?)
Some options that remain:
- mail2news gateways. At least the Demon one still allows Approved:
headers (most others do not, due to abuse); but it doesn't allow
Supersedes (also due to abuse).
- the auto-poster at mit.edu
- buy an account at a subscription news service; some of the
less-well-known ones like Randori may be cheaper than RemarQ
(formerly Supernews), Newsguy, Newscene, Altopia, etc., but I have
no idea of the relative quality. Places to avoid are
News-Service.com, triton.net, newsfeeds.com, and realnews.net (all
spammers or spammer-havens).
- find someone who runs a news-server and ask them nicely for access
-- Andrew.
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