From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:59:29 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Posting from a non-gmail address ? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:59:30 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <2d743b52-18b5-4228-a149-85fc448dcaa2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.118.129 X-Trace: sv3-6v4QP0xDWY/7YD5bUDm7LpCVFlEJzNqDk5cqe2TrcLkqdng39YEL7hYSl4AyTAgGoCy+Rn6PpD0AbyB!liig+PQHoWR7jfSpBWIQ9xjxbVUGxDVxx7u8SyDAz1Ntrn3Wg4LnwNAPraFvN59U6X0knacekLiu!lCHsW+B5kAzBSaTomFb3Y6PNBRQU X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1805 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50563 Date: 2018-02-22T11:59:30-05:00 List-Id: On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:18:07 -0800 (PST), santu.ottavi@gmail.com declaimed the following: >Hi, > >Do you know if it's possible to post in this group from a non-gmail address ? > This "group" existed before "Google Groups"... This is the Usenet comp.lang.ada news group, and traditionally is accessed using an NNTP client connecting to an NNTP news server (which, at one time, was something every real ISP provided). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Google is merely mirroring the group in their web-based forum (which does have many Google-only groups). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/