What do the various fields in the server listings mean?
• News server hostname – this is the hostname or IP address of the news server. If you click the hostname, you’ll get some additional information about this news server. • Posting – this is mostly obvious except when it isn’t 🙂 This field shows whether or not the server claims to accept postings. Note that just because a server accepts a posting doesn’t mean it will actually get propagated to the global USENET. You may have to experiment a bit to find a server that has good propagation. Newzbot is able to test the propagation of servers by posting test messages to designated test groups (currently alt.test, misc.test, and microsoft.test.) If the post is successful and propagates, then this field will say “Verified”, and the host information page will have the time it took for the post to propagate back “home” to my internal (private) news server. If the post was accepted but has not propagated, then the field will say “Unverified.” Newzbot does not thoroughly test post-ability; the o
