In article <9ebq1j$24803$1@ID-76083.news.dfncis.de>, Joachim Schr�er says... >I have a special question. How are newsgroups like C.L.A >maintained? The reason for my question is: No one "maintains" C.L.A. However, the question you are asking about is a feature of your newsserver, so you could ask your newsserver's sysadmin. You should probably first go read through the website of the Usenet Newbie Project at http://tgos.org/newbie/ . If you are interested in reading through older messages, the best place to go is Google Groups ( http://groups.google.com/ ) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com