My news server doesn get a.g.u.d. How can I participate?
This section pertains to those who can telnet but whose news boxes don’t get a.g.u.d for whatever reason. If you have a WWW client, true, you can often access newsgroups that way, but usually the news URLs (in the format news:name.of.group) point the client to your local news machine, and if you don’t get the group in the first place… you get the idea. It used to be true that one could telnet to library.wustl.edu and use the public Lynx browser there to read Usenet news, including the alt.games.ultima.dragons newsgroup; sadly, however, this is no longer the case. There is a definite workaround for posting -to- the newsgroup, however. It is slow sometimes, and somewhat unreliable from time to time, but is really better than nothing. • Address an email to alt-games-ultima-dragons@cs.utexas.edu • The subject line can be whatever subject you want; as can the body of the message itself. The email will go to a mail-to-news gateway, and hopefully show up in the newsgroup within a short amou