Usenet News

From Syscore

OIT provides Usenet News Service from the server news://news.umbc.edu

The news server provides unrestricted access for IP addresses within the umbc.edu and 130.85.0.0/16 address spaces. Off campus, users may connect via SSL and authenticate themselves with their UMBC username and password. This has been tested to work with Netscape Messenger, however, it should work with any standards compliant, SSL-Capable newsreader.

We currently carry over 22,000 usenet news groups.