Resources for your ti-99/4a home Computer

Newsgroups

Newsgroups are similar to bulletin boards. If your Internet Service Provider gives you access to Newsgroups, look up COMP.SYS.TI. You must make sure that this newsgroup is offered by the news server you want to connect to. If you find it, use your newsreader software to mark it as being subscribed to. Posts to the COMP.SYS.TI newsgroup have dwindled since the advent of the mailing list.

John Van Weelie sent me the following information. It seems that actual access to a news server is no longer required! There is a site on the web, Dejanews that offers most newsgroups. Keep in mind that some message may get purged. For complete instructions, let’s turn to John.
If you have browser capabilities either through ie. Mosaic, Netscape, Internet Explorer or a text based browser i.e. Lynx you can go the Dejanews which is free and has easy to use interface which offers most all

news groups.

DejaNews - http://www.dejanews.com
There are other services which are subscriber based also which offer the complete list of newgroups and most complete base of messages because they get the news feeds from a number of sources.
My exeperience has been that some messages can be purged by sites before they have managed to get through the systems. I have found reading a newsgroup from my freenet account some times have messages which never have come to my ISP. That is why if you subscribe to a newsgroup in the binaries grouping you constantly see requests for reposts of files due to parts go missing in action.