Can everybody already read and post to newsgroups on Usenet?
Yes, certainly. But SFF Net is a private news server, available only through SFF Net. I can’t find the SFF Net newsgroups on Usenet. That’s because SFF Net’s newsgroups don’t propagate: that is, they are not made available to Usenet. Occasionally, some news service will scan through the SFF Net’s public newsgroups and repost the messages on a Usenet feed without permission, but any responses posted from Usenet will never be seen on SFF Net. You have to be on SFF Net’s server to join in the community conversation. Note: Private newsgroups such as the SFWA areas are not publically readable so they cannot be picked up by such a news service scan. They are not available anywhere but from the SFF Net news server. I can’t find any private SFWA newsgroups on SFF Net. That may be because you are logged in as “anonymous”–or not logged in at all. Private areas won’t show up until you have successfully logged in to SFF Net first. See this helpful page to test your SFF Net username and password a
