Hello.

is there any "officially dead" newsgroups on dlang.org that nobody sees, yet they still working and can be used to test my simple nntp code?

yes, i know that i can setup local nntp server and play with it, but i want to test it on dlang groups to see if it's really working, and i can't up local dfeed, sorry.

so is there some forgotten group which aren't used anymore, and server owners don't mind if someone spam it with various test messages? i've seen alot groups in nntp list, can i...

On 1/20/15 8:54 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hello.
>
> is there any "officially dead" newsgroups on dlang.org that nobody
> sees, yet they still working and can be used to test my simple nntp
> code?
>
> yes, i know that i can setup local nntp server and play with it, but i
> want to test it on dlang groups to see if it's really working, and i
> can't up local dfeed, sorry.
>
> so is there some forgotten group which aren't used anymore, and server
> owners don't mind if someone spam it with various test messages? i've
> seen alot groups in nntp list, can i...
>

http://forum.dlang.org/group/D

Vladimir already uses it for testing.

-Steve

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:22:52 -0500
Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>
wrote:

> On 1/20/15 8:54 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > is there any "officially dead" newsgroups on dlang.org that nobody sees, yet they still working and can be used to test my simple nntp code?
> >
> > yes, i know that i can setup local nntp server and play with it, but i want to test it on dlang groups to see if it's really working, and i can't up local dfeed, sorry.
> >
> > so is there some forgotten group which aren't used anymore, and server owners don't mind if someone spam it with various test messages? i've seen alot groups in nntp list, can i...
> >
> 
> http://forum.dlang.org/group/D
> 
> Vladimir already uses it for testing.
aha, i see. thank you very much.