What is WebNews-Exchange?
A News Server, which sucks feeds from a central news server.
Why should I use WebNews-Exchange?
Users of WebNews-Exchange are free(see terms) to post, read, and respond to any news articles (anywhere in the world). Hundreds or even thousands of new messages and images are posted everyday, usually expiring after five days. Since WebNews-Exchange has broad audience, topics are reached by a variety of users, which vary in experience level, gender, nationality, etc. Although newsgroups are free, please remember WebNews-Exchange does not tolerate spaming, flaming, or flooding. Please use proper internet etiquette when posting articles to any newsgroup.
How do I use WebNews-Exchange?
Start from the home page and enter a search criteria in the search list box(i.e. alt.comp.freeware) and press the search button. If a particular newsgroup is entered, it will list all the newsgroups, including subsets. If wildcards are used, it will list all the newsgroups that meet the wildcard criteria. After the search button is pressed, it will list all the newsgroups that meet the search criteria. After selecting a newsgroup, it will list all the topics within the newsgroup. Select a topic.
What is a Newsgroup?
A Newsgroup is an open gateway to the world; more specifically,
a forum that allows public discussion on particular topics. Since Newsgroups are not
monitored, they are open to any topic. Newsgroups were used before the internet and
are distributed by UUNet via the NNTP protocol.
Is my response/post propagated to internet News Servers?
Currently, all posts are local to Webnews-Exchange.com; in other words, they are not routed to News Servers(USENET) on the internet.
However, in July, a membership will be offered, allowing users to send their
responses/posts to Internet News Servers. Browsing newsgroups
(not all) will still be free.
How do I Post a message to a particular newsgroup?
After you select a newsgroup, press the post button, which is located at the top and bottom of the page. Your message will be posted to the target(the newsgroup you selected) newsgroup.Posting is local Webnews-Exchange.com, and, therefore, is not propagated to the internet News Servers.
How do I Post a Response to a particular topic within a newsgroup?
After you select a topic within a newsgroup, press the Post Response button, which is located at the top and bottom of the page. Your message will be posted to the topic. Posting is local to Webnews-Exchange.com, and, therefore, is not propagated to the internet News Servers.
How do I download movies?
Make sure all the files that composed the movie file are present. For example, 15 files make up the following movie file
2505 Rose-Miracle Rose-Miracle.mpg [07/15] - "Arthur" , 10 Feb 2001Review the article listing and try to verify all files were uploaded before selecting any of the links, or just select one of the links. Then select the following link:
Re-assemble multipart attachment: Rose-Miracle.mpg
The system will try to locate all of the files. If it does not, the following error is displayed:
Error: Only found 14 of 15 parts, sorry
If the system finds all the files, it will prompt you for a save path. After the file is downloaded, just click on it from explorer. You must have an application the executes the movie file such as windows multimedia player or RealAudio.
Images are taken a long time to download?
You are limited by the speed of your bandwidth; nevertheless, one option is to open up multiple browser windows. This might improve you wait time. Assume you use a right hand mouse. Select (click) the picture/image topic with the left button(do not double click) then right click on it. Select "Open in New Window". While this one is downloading, do the same for the next four. By the time you opened up the fifth one, the first one might be finished downloading.
Which files should I download?
Download images files such as *.jpg, *.gif and movie files such as *.avi, *.mpg, and *.asf. It is not recommended to download neither *.exe nor *.com files. WebNews-Exchange.com is not responsible for any files downloaded from its server, so download at your own discretion.
Buttons?
- From the home page list newsgroups given a search criteria(i.e. alt.lang.*)
- From a newsgroup page list articles within a newsgroup given a search criteria(i.e. calculating)
- List the topics for a particular newsgroup(i.e. alt.comp.freeware)
- List the latest topics in a newsgroup
- Search for newsgoups
- Post (local)an topic/item/image to a newsgroup
- Allows user to post (local)a response to a topic
- Displays the next message(i.e. response) for a particular topic
- Displays the last message(i.e. response) for a particular topic
- Displays the next topic
- Displays the last topic
- List the current topic