Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:51:13 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C Programming Tutorial on Youtube References: <5dd7f77e-74fb-45dd-9f17-895b6277a205@googlegroups.com> <3b0a70e3-9c51-d228-7995-286f75a162ef@verizon.net> <49981d65-38c6-4ea1-ac08-1885dd5aa130@googlegroups.com> <20161017002720.4fbb22b9bb5d2ab193a0dae4@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:51:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87r37edim6.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4yxFHP9iiLXc+9SvUTaZCzdjuX8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-wWmHy1rZhSxwsNnpi1f/6f+4eIx1BCbpxm6FjnPev3DkHvGx+ZYxCUZVuqTFr2r7MAIIEQRltbEf93C!OMICzhgZ+8y0Sae4AA4OOOFZjF2exAJuhKPuOK0UvZvsRLJbzeFKJb0R+7RLUxazqDny X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2586 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:94999 James Kuyper writes: > On 10/16/2016 05:27 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote: > ... >> because there are none. The way you counterpose >> public newsgrousps and private news servers shows >> that you misunderstand the way Usenet works. ... > > I know from annoying personal experience that it's entirely possible to > have a private usenet news server. More than a decade ago, Goddard Space > Flight Center had a usenet news server which served many newsgroups that > were GSFC-specific - groups devoted to things like the campus store, the > yoga group, the day care center, employee notices, and the like. Every university at which I studied or worked had the same system, although that was 15 years ago and they may well have died out now too.