[David Bostwick]

In article , PJScully1 ""coffeyman\"@out the back.com.au" wrote:
Mr.T wrote:
"PJScully1" wrote in message
...
try contacting your ISP and ask if the have a news server if yes you
will find all the news groups in creation

No you won't. Very few (if any) ISP's carry *all* the newsgroups

c.5000 I think)

If you think that all there are, then obviously your ISP doesn't carry them
all either.
and you know that, how?

MrT.
having watched your posting behaviour for quite some
time now , one is inclined to ask if you ever have anything constructive or
useful to contribute to proceedings on this group,it appears not! you are
obviously yet another useless waste of space with nothing particularly useful
to offer.



One way to know that the max is not 5000 is to note that some ISPs show a lot
more than 5000 groups. Earthlink, for example, shows about 111000 groups,
which is more than 5000.